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Between punishment and denial: uncertainty, flexibility, and U.S. military strategy toward China / Simon, Luis

Simon, Luis	Journal Article
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Most debates on U.S. military strategy in the Western Pacific revolve around the question of how to deter China. Advocates of deterrence by punishment believe that the Chinese threat is serious but not critical, because the United States can leverage its global military-technological advantages to preserve a position of regional military primacy. Those in favor of deterrence by denial point to China’s potential and “home advantages,” and argue that the United States should settle for more modest objectives such as preventing Chinese regional military dominance. I argue that the high level of uncertainty around Chinese capabilities and the evolving Sino-American regional military balance have led the United States to adopt a flexible strategy, and embrace distinct–even contradictory–operational concepts to deter Beijing: The United States itself mostly focuses primarily on deterrence by punishment, while actively encouraging and enabling its regional allies to develop deterrence by denial.

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Deterrence ; Uncertainty ; US Defense Policy ; Strategic Competition ; US Military Strategy ; US-China Rivalry

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Buy now, pay later: American military intervention and the strategic cost paradox / Waldman, Thomas

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This paper explores the notion that US efforts to evade the political costs of war paradoxically contribute to the subsequent exacerbation of costs over time. Leaders seek to purchase political capital in the short term by limiting the costs and requirements of military operations, but in doing so cause strategic and political liabilities to mount in the long run. While identification of such behaviour is not new, insufficient attention has been devoted to explaining its causes, dynamics, and manifestations in relation to key decisions on and in war. Evidence derived from studies of recent American discretionary campaigns is analysed to advance an argument with respect to this pattern of self-defeating strategic behaviour.

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Intervention ; Modern Warfare ; Politics of War ; US Military Strategy

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Deterring the dradon-form (under) the sea / Vescovo, Victor

Vescovo, Victor	Journal Article
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2014.

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Taiwan ; United States ; China ; Subsurface Strategy ; American Military Strategy ; Chinese Grand Strategy ;
US Military Strategy ; Chinese Maritime Commerce

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