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SEATO

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SEATO: see Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), alliance organized (1954) under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty by representatives of Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States.
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SEATO
organization formed to assure protection against communist expansion in Southeast Asia (1955–1976). [World Hist.: EB, IX: 377]
See : Cooperation


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Less known is the fact that the legal basis for our involvement in Vietnam was the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) collective defense treaty.
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Because of the RP-US alliance, within the context of the MDT, the AFP's conventional military function was limited to occasional participation in the SEATO military exercises and joint exercises with American forces in Philippine territory.
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