Publication

This policy brief examines whether traditional concepts such as escalation, deterrence, and proportionality would apply to a US-China conflict. The author argues in favor of the development of a shared theoretical framework that integrates actions in the emerging strategic domains of space and cyberspace with actions in traditional domains. This, he says, would give decision-makers a better sense of which actions and responses are expected and accepted in real-world scenarios and which responses would be escalatory.