Publication

This study analyzes the growing anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) challenges China poses to the US and explores the role America's allies and partners can play in blunting them. More specifically, the text discusses 1) the A2/AD offset strategies the US is beginning to pursue; 2) three scenarios where a potential escalation in tensions between China and its neighbors may occur and the impact they could have on allied and partner cooperation; 3) some specific allies’ and partners’ requirements and approaches to countering China’s A2/AD capabilities; and 4) how developments in warfare in the land, air, sea, cyberspace and space domains could play a part in neutralizing the A2/AD threat. The text concludes with a requirements roadmap that the next US administration and its key allies and partners might follow to address the A2/AD challenge.