Monday, May 24, 2010

Air-Sea Battle: The Other Future

Air-Sea Battle: The Other Future: "Tuesday morning, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments presented its report on the 'air-sea battle' on Capitol Hill, introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman and John Thune. The report and associated presentation are worth a detailed read. Let's just say that the ideas are far reaching and suggest a future for the US military that's very different from its 'boot centric' present.

The air-sea battle idea raises some fundamental questions. The biggest, certainly, is that of the approach of the US and its allies to China.

ASB concepts can be applied to conflict with Iran and a few other remote hypotheses, but it really makes no sense except in the context of China"