Publication

This report analyzes the strategic importance of the AirSea Battle concept. It begins by noting the critical role that power-projection operations have played in providing for the United States’ security since becoming an active global power nearly seventy years ago. The paper then goes on to describe how China and Iran are engaged in military modernization efforts whose principal purpose appears to be to deny the US the ability to sustain military forces in two areas of vital interest, the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf.