The operational art of war iv pacific series#
For more than a generation, China has been fielding a series of interrelated missile, sensor, guidance, and other technologies designed to deny freedom of movement to hostile powers in the air and waters off its coast. Many observers now fear that this era may be coming to an end in the Western Pacific. allies in this new system will be imperfectly, but substantially, secure. allies is real but more limited than often supposed.
This in turn suggests that the Chinese A2/AD threat to U.S. In this new era, the United States will possess a sphere of influence around allied landmasses China will maintain a sphere of influence over its own mainland and a contested battlespace will cover much of the South and East China Seas wherein neither power enjoys wartime freedom of surface or air movement. military no longer enjoys today's command of the global commons, but is still able to deny China military hegemony in the Western Pacific. As both the United States and China deploy A2/AD capabilities, a new era will emerge in which the U.S.
Although these “antiaccess, area denial” (A2/AD) capabilities are real, they are a geographically limited long-term threat. military access to parts of the Western Pacific that the United States has long controlled. Many analysts worry that improvements in Chinese missile, sensor, guidance, and other technologies will enable China to deny the U.S.
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