As tensions continue to escalate across the Middle East, overlapping security arrangements are beginning to emerge as part of an interconnected network of defense cooperation stretching from the Gulf to South and Southeast Asia, and with growing links to Europe. I was attending the Global Security Forum in Doha when Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Qatar’s deputy prime minister and minister of state for defense affairs, announced that Qatar would soon unveil a new defense partnership with regiona
