This monograph analyzes published Chinese and Western sources about current and future capabilities and employment concepts of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). It describes how those capabilities and concepts might be realized in a conflict over Taiwan, assesses the implications of China implementing them, and provides recommendations about actions that should be taken in response.

Shaking The Heavens & Splitting The Earth: Chinese Air Force Employment Concepts in the 21st Century

History

Roger Cliff

John Fei

Jeff Hogen

Elizabeth Hogue

Eric Heginbotham

John Stillion

Asia

RAND Corporation

In the history of the US-Japan alliance, the so-called Okinawa problem-how to alleviate the burden of Okinawa's hosting of over seventy-five percent of US forces in Japan-remains to be one of the toughest alliance management issues for US and Japanese policymakers. Over the past two years, twleve experts on the US-Japan alliance have met periodically to discuss the various strategic and political aspects of this unique relationship, with special attention paid to the unusually large role Okinawa has played in housing US troops in Japan. Analyzing US force realignments in the Asia-Pacific region that have been ongoing as part of the Global Posture Review (GPR), Strategic Yet Strained: US Force Realignment in Japan and its Effects on Okinawa is a culmination of these conversations, providing a comprehensive overview of where the US-Japan alliance has been, where it is now, and where it will be going in the future. With six Japanese researchers and six American perspectives, Strategic Yet Strained offers rare insight into how the complicated relationships of Washington, Tokyo, and the local government of Okinawa affect the Us-Japan alliance and the entire security of East Asia.

Strategic Yet Strained: US Force Realignment in Japan and its Effects on Okinawa

Tsuneo, Watanabe

Scott A. Snyder

Yuki Tatsumi

Derek J. Mitchell

Koji Murata

L. Gordon Flake

Takashi Kawakami

Sugio Takahashi

Weston S. Konishi

Yuji Uesugi

Robert D. Eldridge

Arthur Lord

Stimson Center

Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior

George J. Gilboy

Cambridge University Press

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