Mounting Challenges to Geostrategic Access

Author(s): Michael Haas
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2014: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 65-82
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Place: Zurich

The foundations of the US-sponsored global security system are crumbling. Prospective state and non-state challengers are steadily improving their ability to deny the United States, and its major allies, effective access to vital portions of the sea, air, space, and cyber domains. As their relative capability wanes and operational constraints accumulate, the deterrent value of forward-deployed combat forces is called into question. With its bedrock of military power exposed and subject to erosion, the future of the liberal security order is in the balance.

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