Since independance a number of attempts have been made to build security relationships between the countries of Central Asia. From the joint defense minister’s meetings to the Collective Security Treaty Organization, security ties in Central Asia have resulted in a multilateral alphabet soup with varying levels of failure. American attempts in the region have also seen little success.
In 1996 the US Department of Defense backed the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, creating a joint peacekeeping/humanitarian aid unit called Central Asian Peacekeeping Battalion, or CENTRASBAT. …
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