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Analysis of military strategies towards China highlights conflict potential in evolving US defense policies.
Will China come to pose a peer military threat to the United States? The Obama administration's 2012 Strategic Defense Review and the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) turn on this eventuality. Both the so-called "Asia pivot" and the evolving Air-Sea Battle (ASB) operational concept are meant to preclude it. But they may serve to precipitate it, instead. Includes a detailed description of the ASB plan.
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