Author: Ian Easton / Topic: Strategic Stability

Author:: Ian Easton
Publication Date:: 09-2013
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Project 2049 Institute
Abstract:: The military modernization program being undertaken by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is changing the security environment in the Asia-Pacific. Driven by a strategy to achieve the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership’s goals through the exploitation of advantageous conditions, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is investing in capabilities that are aimed at eroding the conventional military superiority of the United States and its allies in the region. Should the PLA’s modernization campaign succeed the likelihood of conflict and regional instability can be expected to increase as China’s authoritarian leadership is empowered with greater coercive leverage over its neighbors.
Topic:: Security, Military Strategy, Regional Integration, Modernization, and Strategic Stability
Political Geography:: China and Asia-Pacific

Author:: Mark Stokes and Ian Easton
Publication Date:: 05-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Project 2049 Institute
Abstract:: Aerospace power is unquestionably defining the future strategic environment in a region whose vast distances place a premium on speed and agility that defy the laws of gravity. This monograph addresses trends in China’s force modernization, strategy, and doctrine; development of conventional air force, air and missile defense, and long range precision strike modernization in Taiwan, Japan, India, and the United States; and options for countering the coercive utility of evolving PRC aerospace power, including cooperative threat reduction initiatives.
Topic:: Deterrence, Modernization, Strategic Stability, Military, and Aerospace
Political Geography:: China, Taiwan, and Asia-Pacific

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