AirSea Battle - New war fighting concept!

[A.V.]

http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publicat...irSea_Battle/R.20100219.Why_AirSea_Battle.pdf

vii E xecutive Summary
1 Introduction
5 C hapter 1. The United States and Power Projection
13 C hapter 2. China's Anti-Access/Area-Denial Capabilities
27 C hapter 3. Iran's Anti-Access/Area-Denial Capabilities
37 C onclusion
39 Glossary
Figu res
14 Figure 1. China and the Two Island Chains
24 Figure 2. Emerging Chinese Anti-Access/Area-Denial Capabilities
36 Figure 3. Emerging Iranian Anti-Access/Area-Denial Capabilities

The concept is intended to ensure Navy and Air Force power projection against China's rapidly growing arsenal of what the military terms anti-access weapons, such as aircraft carrier killing ballistic missiles, stealthy cruise missiles, stealthy submarines, dense air-defense networks, anti-satellite and cyber war weaponry.
AirSea Battle is focused on China, with Iran as the lesser included case. Krepinevich's paper titled "Why AirSea Battle?" sets out to answer just that question. A follow-on report promises to flesh out the actual concept. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but what I've read so far is familiar territory, mostly details about new and more long-range precision weapons and their implications for U.S. forces in the Pacific.


Read more: http://defensetech.org/2010/02/#ixzz0naydQbEs

 

[ankur]

can the same concept of area denial strategy is viable from india point of view in case PLAN tries to make it way in IOR region?