Between Peace and the Air-Sea Battle: A War at Sea Strategy

Abstract

In a February 2012 article published in the American Interest, General Norton A. Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, and Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, provide solid justification for more closely integrating Air Force and Navy capabilities into an Air-Sea Battle strategy.1 We applaud the Air-Sea Battle component as the most effective means of preparing for the most challenging conflict full-scale conventional war. We propose, however, an intermediate strategy, one providing American leadership additional flexibility to avert the need to exercise the potentially escalatory strikes that the Air-Sea Battle strategy may require. Predicated on American relative strengths, particularly in the undersea domain, it is a war at sea strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA580444

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey E. Kline
  • Wayne P. Hughes Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Boats
  • International Law
  • Islands
  • Maritime Security
  • Military Science
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Ships
  • South China Sea
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies