Mongolia

  • Features

    Expanding Horizons

    FORUM Staff When 200 or so Mongolian pro-democracy activists converged in Sükhbaatar Square on United Nations Human Rights Day in December 1989, there was little to portend the transformation set to unfold. From the square in the capital Ulaanbaatar, peaceful protests would sweep across the country of steppes and deserts. Within three months, Mongolia’s communist regime relinquished power after nearly…

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  • Free and Open Indo-Pacific/FOIP

    USINDOPACOM Office of Women, Peace & Security holds inaugural gender advisor course

    FORUM Staff The United States Indo-Pacific Command’s (USINDOPACOM) Office of Women, Peace & Security (WPS) conducted its first Indo-Pacific Regional Military Gender Advisor Course in Hawaii in late August 2023. The event marked the launch of a five-year training initiative by USINDOPACOM. The WPS Office designed the annual course to develop a trained network of gender advisors from partner nations,…

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  • Northeast Asia

    Cooperation, engagement vital to Northeast Asian stability, prosperity

    FORUM Staff Multilateral collaboration was at the core of diplomatic and military engagements that drew hundreds of delegates, experts and service members to Mongolia in May and June 2023 to discuss complex security challenges in Northeast Asia and beyond. The annual Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Northeast Asian Security, named in part for the Mongolian capital and organized by the nation’s Foreign…

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  • Integrated Deterrence

    Taking Aim

    B. Munkherdene helps a young archer draw a bow as part of a traditional Naadam festival — which includes wrestling, horse racing and archery — held during the multilateral Gobi Wolf exercise in Bayankhongor, Mongolia, in September 2022. Military service members and first responders from Mongolia and United States Army Pacific, as well as delegates from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka,…

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