A Salami Slice for Taiwan’s Security The U.S. can put a revisionist tactic to its own use in the Western Pacific. In recent years, “incremental slicing” or “salami-slice” tactics have become an increasingly prominent feature of great power relations. Such tactics involve the use of military assets by a revisionist power – a power that seeks to upend or transform the existing international order – in ways that fall far short of the threshold of war, but that nevertheless cumulatively transform the geopolitical situation in its favor. While they can differ in the details, salami-slicing operations share one common denominator. They all involve the non-kinetic use of military or paramilitary assets to present the target country with a choice: accept the new geopolitical reality or take potentially war-triggering steps to restore the