The Short, Unhappy Life of the Stand-In Force bomber force, then arming it accordingly, Washington would be well positioned to win a counter-maritime campaign in the western Pacific. By making China’s maritime assets the main target for the U.S. policymakers and military planners begin to properly prioritize it.

bomber force could be a mortal threat to China’s maritime power if U.S.

China cannot take Taiwan, the Senkakus, or other territories in the region if its maritime power is destroyed. bomber force against China’s navy and other maritime assets. commanders will have to position within range of China’s firepower.įortunately, a better matchup exists, one that focuses the U.S. competitive advantages against China’s weaknesses while minimizing the number of forces U.S. This means forces and concepts that match U.S. Recent wargames, like their predecessors, demonstrate the United States needs a better plan for defeating an attack on Taiwan. commanders in the Indo-Pacific will have to fight with the forces and weapons policymakers provide them. And if China’s leaders believe this, even wrongly, deterrence will collapse, and the risk of war will rise.

But the cost could very well be too high for U.S. The United States and its allies might stalemate the People’s Liberation Army. Scheduled to be written up later this year, the games have reinforced at least one previously well-known conclusion: should the United States attempt to fight the battle for Taiwan relying mainly on military forces located west of Guam, U.S. These games, planned long before the most recent Taiwan crisis and set in 2026, add to decades of analyses of the Taiwan scenario conducted at war colleges and think tanks on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. military personnel lost in the war’s opening days. combat aircraft destroyed, and thousands of U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups sunk, hundreds of U.S. The think tank’s simulation of a conflict between the United States and China saw several U.S. Washington has already lost the war for Taiwan - at least according to the most recent wargames organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. We are seeking to fill two positions on our editorial team: An editor/researcher and a membership editor.

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