The Navy Cannot Beat China Without Help From U.S. Allies
It’s good to see allies take ownership of their own security, and of freedom of the sea.
Here s What You Need to Remember: PLA commanders have predicated their access-denial strategy on disheartening their U.S. counterparts or convincing the U.S. administration the military effort cannot succeed at a cost the country is prepared to pay. Allies and partners should devise strategies and operations that hold down the price of access for U.S. forces and thus make it thinkable if not easy for an American president to order them into combat.
Chinese missiles were made to ensure U.S. bases throughout the Pacific could be taken out of action.
Key point: Beijing knows that America has the technological edge in a major war. But they also know that America s forward-deployed bases are also very vulnerable to attack.
Last week the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Center (USSC) set policy circles aflutter when it issued a novella-length report that questions the staying power of U.S. military strategy in the Indo-Pacific theater while urging inhabitants of the region to take up their share of the defense burden vis-à-vis a domineering China. Read the whole thing.