Smarter Power, Stronger Partners, Volume I: Exploiting U.S. Advantages to Prevent Aggression
Journal: RAND Corporation eBooks
Year: 2016

The proliferation of anti-access and area denial capabilities threatens to undermine the viability of offensive force projection. Thus, certainty that the United States could decisively defeat any state in all circumstances could be eroding. This research examined trends in military capabilities among potential U.S. adversaries and proposes an alternative way for the United States and its allies to secure their interests.