Mounting Challenges to Geostrategic Access

Autor(en): Michael Haas
Herausgeber: Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Reihenherausgeber: Andreas Wenger
Buchtitel: Strategic Trends 2014: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Serie: Strategic Trends
Seiten: 65-82
Verlag(e): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publikationsjahr: 2014
Publikationsort: Zurich

The foundations of the US-sponsored global security system are crumbling. Prospective state and non-state challengers are steadily improving their ability to deny the United States, and its major allies, effective access to vital portions of the sea, air, space, and cyber domains. As their relative capability wanes and operational constraints accumulate, the deterrent value of forward-deployed combat forces is called into question. With its bedrock of military power exposed and subject to erosion, the future of the liberal security order is in the balance.

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