AirSea Battle

Do AirSea Battle and A2/AD make the U.S.-China military balance more or less stable?

Plus, are China’s internet censors really just pollsters? Monday China links.

Effective militaries design institutions that maximize innovation while minimizing inter-service rivalry.

Military realities aside, there could be no winners in a clash between China and the U.S.

Plus, following new military agreements with Japan, India strengthens defense ties with Thailand and Australia.

Mil-to-mil ties can help on the margins, but can’t solve the fundamental clash of visions between the U.S. and China.

You can’t judge a battle concept by its name. Explaining AirSea battle in terms of AirLand battle only serves to confuse.

Beijing’s approach to seapower is remarkably similar to the U.S. Navy in the age of Mahan and Roosevelt.

Soviet leaders once almost mistook an exercise for an attack. Could China have similar misperceptions?

Taipei needs to undertake a pivot of its own, aimed at ensuring that its chief protector can, and will, come to its aid in wartime.

The U.S. needs to do more to persuade allies that ASB is the right response to China’s military challenge.

James Holmes on why the Coast Guard and Air Force might become the military’s “odd couple” in defending America’s Arctic front.