{"id":2599,"date":"2014-03-07T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T21:44:15","slug":"asia-pivot-air-sea-battle-precipitating-military-competition-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/asia-pivot-air-sea-battle-precipitating-military-competition-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The US \u201cAsia Pivot\u201d and \u201cAir-Sea Battle\u201d Concept: Toward Conflict with China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"varPubAuthor\">by Carl Conetta. Originally published as &#8220;Will the QDR Pivot for Air-Sea Battle with China?&#8221; in <em>Reset Defense Bulletin<\/em>,<\/span> <span class=\"varPubDate\">03 March 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u27aa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/1403-Asia-Pivot-ASB-China-Conflict.html\"> HTML<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u27aa <a href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/fulltext\/1403-Asia-Pivot-ASB-China-Conflict.pdf\"> PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubPostType\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-small wp-image-22606\" src=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Asia-Pivot-cvr-e1605623698915.jpeg\" alt=\"Asia Pivot\" width=\"175\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Will China come to pose a peer military threat to the United States?\u00a0 <span class=\"varPubSum\">The Obama administration\u2019s 2012 Strategic Defense Review and the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) turn on this eventuality. Both the so-called \u201cAsia pivot\u201d and the evolving Air-Sea Battle (ASB) operational concept are meant to preclude it. But they may serve to precipitate it, instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carl Conetta. Originally published as &#8220;Will the QDR Pivot for Air-Sea Battle with China?&#8221; in Reset Defense Bulletin, 03 March 2014. \u27aa\u00a0 HTML\u00a0 \u00a0\u27aa PDF Will China come to pose a peer military threat to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10167552604075290_133638503385018":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,26,34,3,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-defense-reviews","category-featured","category-publications","category-regional-security","category-us-defense-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The US \u201cAsia Pivot\u201d and \u201cAir-Sea Battle\u201d Concept: Toward Conflict with China? &#8211; Project on Defense Alternatives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/asia-pivot-air-sea-battle-precipitating-military-competition-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The US \u201cAsia Pivot\u201d and \u201cAir-Sea Battle\u201d Concept: Toward Conflict with China? &#8211; Project on Defense Alternatives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Carl Conetta. 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