About the Book: Military Strategies Diplomacy
Defence diplomacy serves specific national foreign and security policy
objectives. In the context of global and regional strategic engagement, it
creates sustainable cooperative relationships, thereby building trust and
facilitating conflict prevention, introducing transparency into defence
relations; building and reinforcing perceptions of common interests; changing
the rnind-set of partners; and inducing cooperation in other areas. Defence
diplomacy can further country specific foreign policy objectives by managing
defence foreign relations and supporting the other diplomatic initiatives of
government. The author, in his book Enabling Military-to-Military Cooperation as
a Foreign Policy Tool, details the various activities that can be undertaken as
part of defence and military