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In the event of war between the United States and China in the western Pacific region, the outposts likely would be important targets for the Americans.

The islands function as unsinkable aircraft carriers and help to cement Beijing’s claims on waters rich with fish and minerals, waters that neighboring countries also claim.

The islands function as unsinkable aircraft carriers and help to cement Beijing’s claims on waters rich with fish and minerals, waters that neighboring countries also claim.

Europe Needs an Integrated Ground-Based Air Defense Network If Europe is serious about achieving strategic autonomy, the requirement of detaching its ground-based air defense from the United States and moving towards an integrated air defense network seems inevitable. The composition of the contemporary European ground-based air defense landscape is problematic. European states deploy a large number of different air-defense capabilities and heavily rely on foreign and especially American system...

People have predicted the obsolescence of the aircraft carrier since the end of World War II.

Are U.S. Bases in Asia Vulnerable to Chinese Missiles? Very. For its part, Washington must stop trying to do it all alone—and afford allies and friends the deference their interests and contributions warrant.  Heres What You Need to Remember: Beijing can now hope to fend off U.S. reinforcements from coming to the aid of regional allies, to slow them down, or to make the effort so expensive in terms of lives and hardware that no U.S. president would order the attempt. The University of Sydn...

This is the first time Beijing has provided additional insight on the launch. Heres What You Need to Remember: The tests of the two missile platforms came a day after Beijing accused the United States of sending a U-2 spy plane over a no-fly zone during Chinese Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) live-fire drills in the Bohai Sea. The United States Navy had also sent two of its aircraft carrier strike groups (CSG), led by the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan, to conduct tactical air defense ex...

U.S. and Its Allies Must Focus on Access Denial Against China’s Military Beijing may be deterred if it is clear that moving its naval and air force assets to attack Taiwan puts them at risk of humiliating losses. “If China is going to start a war, they are going to do it on their terms. All of our wonderful stuff won’t get there in time. You need to get your stuff there on Day Zero of the fight,” Adm. James “Sandy” Winnefeld, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tol...

Could China’s Navy Successfully Strangle Taiwan? The PLA could deploy a blockade to stretch and thin out Taiwan’s defenders around the island’s perimeter while Chinese forces ready a concentrated blow across the strait. Heres What You Need To Remember: Taiwan is more like Cuba, an island Mahan acclaimed as a mini-continent whose inhabitants could outflank a blockade. It was blessed with natural resources, making its populace hard to starve out. Blockade runners could shift from side to s...

Who owns the high seas? The conventional answer is: no one and everyone. Coastal states exercise sovereignty over territorial waters that normally extend 12 nautical miles from their shorelines. They also have the right to exploit undersea resources like oil and gas in exclusive economic zones that extend out 200 nautical miles. Economics rights can even be extended further to incorporate the entire continental shelf before the seabed falls off into a deep ocean basin. These lawyerly definition...