{"product_id":"164440","title":"The coming Western Pacific War ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYFtwrHBL3x6hi4MXPX8o0Y2CzfZR.png?v=1764973408\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e The coming Western Pacific War \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Western Pacific War is coming!\u003cbr\u003e The question is not whether China will invade Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e The question is when to invade.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Today, U.S. military commanders are debating not whether war over Taiwan will occur, but when.\u003cbr\u003e In 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping stated that China “never commits to renounce the use of force” to unify Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e The Chinese People's Liberation Army has been conducting joint amphibious landing drills for several years, simulating an invasion of Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e U.S. congressional advisory bodies and others are reporting that President Xi Jinping has ordered the People's Liberation Army to be ready to attack Taiwan by 2027.\u003cbr\u003e Whether China will invade Taiwan is now beyond the level of intention. \u003cbr\u003eThe question is simply whether China has the capability to invade Taiwan, or more precisely, whether it believes it has the capability to do so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Haddick, a senior fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aeronautics and Space Studies, a division of the Air Force Association, and a military and security expert, has long warned about the impact of China's military modernization on the U.S.-China military balance in the Western Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e The missile and sensor revolution has completely changed the battlefield landscape.\u003cbr\u003e The US force, centered on carrier battle groups and tactical aircraft, is no longer effective in the face of China's missile-based anti-access\/area denial strategy.\u003cbr\u003e Even US military bases along the Second Island Chain are within the range of Chinese missiles.\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, the United States does not yet have a decisive countermeasure against China's A2\/AD.\u003cbr\u003e As America's military advantage in China's waters waned, the Chinese leadership grew more confident in its ability to control Taiwan. \u003cbr\u003eThe deterrence against China is shaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Fire on the Water, Robert Haddick proposes measures to deter China's presumed attack on Taiwan and secure deterrence, based on the premise that the Western Pacific is no longer a naval theater but a theater dominated by air and space power.\u003cbr\u003e The essence of coercion is to reduce the possibility of a successful invasion of Taiwan and to maximize its costs and risks.\u003cbr\u003e All options, except nuclear ones, are being considered, including distributed operations, expanding submarines and long-range strikes, building a missile fleet, and even striking mainland China and a maritime blockade. \u003cbr\u003eHaddick says the period until the late 2020s, before the People's Liberation Army's Taiwan invasion capability is fully developed and the B-21 Raider bomber is operational, will be a \"window of opportunity\" for China and a very dangerous time for the United States and its allies.\u003cbr\u003e If the United States and its allies fail to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, the war will not be confined to the Taiwan Strait.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Recommendation\u003cbr\u003e introduction\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Korean edition\u003cbr\u003e introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e01 A 40-Year Race to Collision\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e China's Resurgence Becomes a Global Powerhouse\u003cbr\u003e China's strategic goals\u003cbr\u003e China's interests in the East and South China Seas\u003cbr\u003e American interests in East and South Asia\u003cbr\u003e China's strategic shifts under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping\u003cbr\u003e Why the US-China Security Competition Is Inevitable\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e02 It matters who rules the Pacific.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Four Future Paths for Asia\u003cbr\u003e Which route will this area take?\u003cbr\u003e Nuclear-Armed Asia: It Could Be Much Worse\u003cbr\u003e Offshore balancing is not the answer.\u003cbr\u003e Can the US and China reach a lasting compromise?\u003cbr\u003e Taiwan's powder keg\u003cbr\u003e Forward deployment of US troops is the best option, even if it costs money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e03 The Origins of America's Military Deployment in the Pacific\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Origins of U.S. Military Strategy in the Western Pacific\u003cbr\u003e Forward deployments anchored around Korea\u003cbr\u003e Military culture created by the Cold War stalemate\u003cbr\u003e Why has the Air Force's operational scope been so reduced?\u003cbr\u003e The Navy's operational scope has also been reduced.\u003cbr\u003e The Army's long-range strike capability disappeared under the treaty with the Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003e Why the Pentagon Neglected the Chinese Threat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e04 China's Strategy: Missile Revolution and Political Warfare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Origins and Goals of China's Military Modernization\u003cbr\u003e China's vision of dominating the seas from a land-based perspective  \u003cbr\u003eThe mission of China's missile power\u003cbr\u003e China becomes a dominant missile power\u003cbr\u003e China's reconnaissance and targeting network\u003cbr\u003e China's growing air superiority in the Western Pacific\u003cbr\u003e China built the world's largest navy\u003cbr\u003e What has China achieved?\u003cbr\u003e The Chinese Communist Party's political campaign is facing a serious blow from a global backlash.\u003cbr\u003e The Chinese Communist Party's increasingly militarized strategy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e05 America's Return to Asia and the Trials and Errors That Followed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Concerns about the “reconnaissance-strike complex”\u003cbr\u003e A joint operations approach concept that describes the problem but does not provide a solution.\u003cbr\u003e How the concept of air-sea combat has fallen behind reality.\u003cbr\u003e Why lockdowns aren't an easy solution\u003cbr\u003e Faced with the Chinese threat, changes remain minimal.\u003cbr\u003e Frustrated with the next-generation bomber program\u003cbr\u003e A Navy that wants an arms race it can't win\u003cbr\u003e A radical new concept for the US Marine Corps\u003cbr\u003e A competitive strategy is needed in the Indo-Pacific region.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e06 Designing a Strategy for Competing with China in the Indo-Pacific Region\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why should you care about strategy?\u003cbr\u003e Strategy begins with diagnosis\u003cbr\u003e Designing a Competitive Strategy\u003cbr\u003e The Strategic Process Applied in China: Starting with Some Difficult Assumptions\u003cbr\u003e Find your enemy's vulnerabilities and protect your own.\u003cbr\u003e Pursuit of sustainable deterrence\u003cbr\u003e Charge costs, conserve resources, and play the long game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e07 Stopping China's Fait accompli strategy: Aerospace's top priority\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Taiwan: China's Military Priority, America's Conundrum\u003cbr\u003e Aircraft are the natural enemy of surface ships.\u003cbr\u003e Why Bombers Rule the Pacific\u003cbr\u003e Bombers need support forces.\u003cbr\u003e Attacking Mainland China: Too Risky or Inevitable?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e08 The Role of Naval Power in the Age of Sensors and Missiles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What Naval Power Can Do Anymore: The Navy's Traditional Missions in a Future Threat Environment\u003cbr\u003e New Naval Designs, Past and Future  \u003cbr\u003eThe Navy's Role in Conventional Deterrence\u003cbr\u003e Waiting for the Endgame: The Role of the Navy and Marine Corps in the End of the War\u003cbr\u003e New fleet design that imposes costs on the enemy\u003cbr\u003e Moving towards the Navy of the Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e09 How to Win the Long Marathon of the Indo-Pacific\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Americans Concerned About China\u003cbr\u003e Can the US sustain its coercion of China for the long term?\u003cbr\u003e Prescription: Use America's strengths to exploit China's weaknesses.\u003cbr\u003e How it will end: Gradually ending the missile war\u003cbr\u003e It takes confidence and leadership to overcome resistance to innovation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note\u003cbr\u003e NOTES\u003cbr\u003e References\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eTaiwan's powder keg\u003cbr\u003e Will the history of hegemony wars repeat itself in East Asia?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 2013, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described East Asia as “a 21st-century maritime version of the Balkans of a century ago, a powder keg on the water,” referring to the hotbed of nationalism that sparked World War I.\u003cbr\u003e He said that if a war broke out between the United States and China over Taiwan, the impact would be comparable to that of World War II.\u003cbr\u003e In a 2021 report for the Council on Foreign Relations, Blackwill and Jellicoe likened Taiwan to Czechoslovakia in 1938, asking whether the United States and its allies would confront a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, or abandon it to appease China in the hope of avoiding war.\u003cbr\u003e Some compare today's Taiwan to West Berlin during the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e The West responded to the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin with airborne operations, and the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTaiwan, because of its geopolitical and industrial importance, is a larger and more dangerous powder keg than the Balkans, the Czech Republic, or West Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e It is too important a region for either the United States or China to give up.\u003cbr\u003e The Taiwan issue is linked to China's national narrative of \"a hundred years of national humiliation.\"\u003cbr\u003e ‘Taiwan unification’ supports the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule.\u003cbr\u003e More fundamentally, Taiwan is seen as a strategic stepping stone for China to advance as a hegemon in the Pacific region.\u003cbr\u003e Conversely, for the United States, Taiwan is the most important strategic point along the first island chain that extends to Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines.\u003cbr\u003e If China takes control of Taiwan, this first island chain will collapse, opening the way for the Chinese navy to advance into the Pacific. \u003cbr\u003eIf China expands its military influence in the Pacific, US allies such as Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines will be exposed to direct security threats and the credibility of the entire alliance system will be undermined.\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, neither the US nor China is in a position to back down on Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As World War I shows, the history of war has always unfolded in unexpected directions.\u003cbr\u003e Germany misjudged British intervention and believed it would defeat France within six weeks.\u003cbr\u003e Thus began the war, and Europe was plunged into the unprecedented devastation of war.\u003cbr\u003e China will not suppress its desire to occupy the Western Pacific beyond Taiwan, and the United States will not be willing to cede the strategic stronghold of Taiwan and its control of the Western Pacific to China.\u003cbr\u003e With strategic competition between the US and China unfolding across all fronts, war over Taiwan could become a reality at any time. \u003cbr\u003eThe Coming Western Pacific War examines how the military balance between the United States and China has shifted in the new strategic environment of the Western Pacific, how this has weakened deterrence, and how it can be rebuilt to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAs the military balance surrounding Taiwan shifts, deterrence is eroding.\u003cbr\u003e How are US naval supremacy and air superiority threatened?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The United States was late to recognize the changes in China's military power and the threat it posed over the past two decades, and even after recognizing them, it failed to respond appropriately.\u003cbr\u003e China has been asserting its sovereignty and expanding its control in the South China Sea by employing salami tactics, fait accompli strategies, and gray zone tactics.\u003cbr\u003e Although the United States belatedly launched a \"freedom of navigation operation,\" it was unable to physically return China's already built artificial island bases. \u003cbr\u003eAnd now, we are surprised by China's regional dominance in naval power, air power, space, and cyber power.\u003cbr\u003e The US military no longer has sea power and air superiority in the Taiwan Strait, as well as in the waters near China, such as the South China Sea and the East China Sea, and is facing the reality that traditional methods of projecting power and waging war no longer work against China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e China's military power has not only grown quantitatively, but has also been structurally strengthened.\u003cbr\u003e These changes are the result of China's military modernization, leveraging revolutions in sensor and missile technology.\u003cbr\u003e The revolution in precision-guided weapons that began in the Gulf War completely changed the terrain of the battlefield.\u003cbr\u003e China's anti-access\/area denial strategy, based on extensive sensor networks and precision-guided missiles, threatens the US military on two fronts. \u003cbr\u003eAs China's long-range ballistic missiles reach the Second Island Chain and beyond, more than 3,000 kilometers from China's coast, America's core force, the aircraft carrier strike group, is no longer as powerful as it once was.\u003cbr\u003e Likewise, major U.S. forward bases in Okinawa, mainland Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and even Guam are now within range of Chinese missiles.\u003cbr\u003e The strategic assets in which the United States has invested heavily are at risk of being rendered powerless by China's cheap weapons systems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As the United States invests resources in defense systems to protect its carriers and forward bases, China's competitive advantage based on asymmetric weapons systems will only strengthen. \u003cbr\u003eA naval arms race with China, which possesses formidable shipbuilding capabilities, is meaningless, and the geographic location of the Chinese military, which operates its forces on the continent, gives it a tremendous advantage in the power projection and supply competition with the US military, which is effectively an expeditionary force.\u003cbr\u003e The Air Force's power structure is also a problem.\u003cbr\u003e The U.S. military mainly relies on short-range aircraft with a maximum combat radius of about 1,000 km, such as the F-35 series fighter jets, but their power is bound to be limited in a vast theater like the Western Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e Even the closest air base to Taiwan, Okinawa, is 600km away, while the base in Kyushu, Japan, is 1,200km away and Gunsan, South Korea, is over 1,400km away.\u003cbr\u003e The United States is in a situation where it is difficult to deter or stop the Chinese military with its existing force structure, at least in the waters near China, including the Taiwan Strait.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe sensor and missile revolution has completely transformed the battlefield.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChina's A2\/AD and reconnaissance and strike combat network\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Chinese military's strategy for invading Taiwan is to seize the island as quickly as possible and then make it a fait accompli, that is, to give the US military as little time as possible to deploy its forces or for its allies to respond.\u003cbr\u003e To achieve this, intervention by US and allied forces must be deterred, and if deterrence fails, it must be able to be stopped.\u003cbr\u003e This is the Chinese military's A2\/AD, or anti-access\/area denial, strategy.\u003cbr\u003e China's recent military displays are also part of this deterrence strategy.\u003cbr\u003e The goal is to induce the United States to abandon its decision to intervene by demonstrating that China's A2\/AD capabilities are so powerful that US military intervention would incur enormous losses that could not be tolerated.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe core of the Chinese military's A2\/AD is an extensive sensor network including reconnaissance satellites, reconnaissance aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles, a command, control, and communications (C4ISR) system that processes the information obtained through these sensors, and a precision-guided missile system with various ranges.\u003cbr\u003e Anti-access relies on anti-ship ballistic missiles such as the DF-21D and DF-26, which can strike maritime targets such as aircraft carriers from long range, while area denial relies primarily on surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles.\u003cbr\u003e In A2\/AD, not only missiles but also submarines, electronic warfare, and cyber power are all integrated and operated.\u003cbr\u003e Revolutions in surveillance and reconnaissance sensors and long-range precision-strike missile technology have transformed the Western Pacific battlefield from one dominated by naval forces to one dominated by missiles and aerospace power, enabling China to deter and deny access to U.S. naval forces in its coastal waters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow to maintain deterrence in response to China's A2\/AD\u003cbr\u003e America needs to change its game.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If the US military were to send an aircraft carrier strike group into the waters near China to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, it would be difficult for the strike group's Aegis system, no matter how powerful, to withstand a barrage of Chinese missile attacks.\u003cbr\u003e Short-range tactical aircraft would have difficulty even entering their operational areas if their main forward bases were destroyed.\u003cbr\u003e In a battlefield dominated by aerospace power, the United States is playing a game it cannot win against China by pouring resources into building up its naval force to match China's fleet size and by strengthening its defenses to protect high-value assets like aircraft carriers.\u003cbr\u003e Haddick says the US needs to change its game to avoid being at a disadvantage in which it is being imposed by China. \u003cbr\u003eThe idea is that we must use America's strengths to exploit China's vulnerabilities, thereby shifting to a competitive structure that imposes costs on China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Haddick proposes a distributed operations concept, long-range strikes, and strengthening submarine capabilities as ways to maintain US deterrence against Chinese A2\/AD.\u003cbr\u003e Distributed operations are a shift to small, highly mobile, distributed platforms.\u003cbr\u003e It is a deterrence concept that disperses forces to prevent the Chinese military from concentrating attacks on a small number of key targets, thereby maintaining the ability to counterattack even after a Chinese missile attack.\u003cbr\u003e The U.S. military has actually been pursuing the task of dispersing its major missile and air power to multiple bases along the Second Island Chain.\u003cbr\u003e Haddick emphasizes the importance of long-range strike capabilities, particularly long-range stealth bombers, as the most effective deterrent. \u003cbr\u003eThe strategic bomber can fly over 11,000 km without aerial refueling and can carry up to 16 long-range anti-ship missiles (LRASM).\u003cbr\u003e It can strike key facilities or surface ships on the Chinese mainland from outside or through China's air defense network.\u003cbr\u003e The B-2 Spirit, the only long-range stealth bomber currently in the US military's possession, has an operational capacity of less than 10, and the B-21 Raider bomber, which is under development, is not scheduled to enter service until 2026, creating a serious deterrence gap.\u003cbr\u003e Medium-range hypersonic missiles capable of neutralizing China's air defenses are emerging as a key deterrent, and US Dark Eagles were recently deployed to Australia as a deterrent against China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Haddick also highlights submarine forces capable of covertly detecting and striking Chinese surface ships in the Taiwan Strait, evading Chinese A2\/AD, as a key deterrent. \u003cbr\u003eSpace power, such as reconnaissance satellites, and unmanned power, such as drones and unmanned submarines, could also serve as a cost-sharing tool to force China to invest resources in its defense system.\u003cbr\u003e The very same sensors and missile capabilities that enabled China's A2\/AD are what make it difficult for the Chinese amphibious fleet to attack Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e Robert Haddick says that if 100 B-21 Raiders were deployed, they could be a real game changer, as they would be able to strike 1,000 Chinese surface ships simultaneously in a single strike.\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, strengthening America's strengths in long-range bombers, missiles, submarines, and space reconnaissance assets could be the most cost-effective way to exert deterrence while exploiting China's vulnerability to large-scale amphibious assaults using surface ships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreface to the Korean edition by Robert Haddick\u003cbr\u003e South Korea's defense planning in response to China's growing military power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the preface to the Korean edition, Haddick states that the dynamics of East Asia are rapidly changing due to the growth of China's military power, and that Korea is at the center of this change, and offers two pieces of advice to Korea.\u003cbr\u003e One is the importance of a US-led security network in responding to these complex security challenges, and the other is the defense reform South Korea requires to meet the security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While the military assets and capabilities the United States provides through its alliances are crucial to South Korea's ability to deter war on the Korean Peninsula and counter threats from China, even more crucial to South Korea's security is its participation in a comprehensive, formal and informal U.S.-led security system in the Indo-Pacific region. \u003cbr\u003eIt is important to recognize that the value of Korea being part of such a security system is invisible but very powerful.\u003cbr\u003e The importance of these networks is also related to the fact that modern warfare is becoming an information war, and the more sources of information one has, the greater the information advantage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Haddick suggests several necessary reform directions for South Korea's defense planning, particularly maritime defense.\u003cbr\u003e The South Korean Navy says it needs to continue modernizing its fleet of small surface combatants, coastal patrol boats, and anti-submarine aircraft to counter North Korea's midget submarines, which can attack South Korean merchant ships and warships with torpedoes and missiles. \u003cbr\u003eThe emerging “all-round” maritime threat requires a naval force capable of long-term operations in blue waters far from South Korea’s coast, capable of engaging a variety of adversaries ranging from irregular maritime militias to advanced naval forces.\u003cbr\u003e Furthermore, the rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned surface vessels, and unmanned underwater vessels is expected over the next decade, and in the case of South Korea, given its limited budget and human resources, it is suggested that unmanned aerial and naval combat systems should be at the center of maritime security reform.\u003cbr\u003e Fortunately, many of these reforms will put Korea at an advantage because they will leverage technologies where Korea already has a competitive advantage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhat Should Korea Do to Prevent the Coming Disaster?\u003cbr\u003e Strategic Action for Military Balance in the Western Pacific\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIf Taiwan were the Czech Republic on the eve of World War II, and the United States and Japan, fearing armed conflict with China, ceded Taiwan as Britain and France did to Hitler's Germany, China's next target for a fait accompli would be the islands in the South China Sea, as well as Japan's Senkaku Islands and Okinawa, and Korea's West Sea economic zone and Ieodo.\u003cbr\u003e China will further seek to bring the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean under its sphere of influence.\u003cbr\u003e Not only the Taiwan Strait, which is Korea's main shipping route, but also the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca will come under Chinese control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now is the time for deterrence versus deterrence.\u003cbr\u003e China is advancing its A2\/AD capabilities to deny the United States and its allies any room to intervene in the Taiwan situation.\u003cbr\u003e Conversely, the United States and its allies are focusing their capabilities on neutralizing A2\/AD and thereby deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. \u003cbr\u003eThis book examines all the deterrent options the United States could employ, from sanctions against the Chinese economy to strikes on the mainland and a naval blockade, and analyzes the possible conditions.\u003cbr\u003e But the most powerful deterrent, says Haddick, is America's network of alliances, something China lacks.\u003cbr\u003e China cannot invade Taiwan without first striking US military bases within US allies, and doing so would risk escalating the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When World War I began, no one could have imagined that it would be so brutal and last so long.\u003cbr\u003e Even if it weren't nuclear, if another war for hegemony were to break out in East Asia, combining artificial intelligence, unmanned weapon systems, and space power, the disaster would far exceed our imagination. \u003cbr\u003eThe important thing is that China has sufficient capabilities and motivation to invade Taiwan and start a war in the Western Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e The United States, as well as its allies, including South Korea, must clearly recognize that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and war in the Western Pacific could become a reality at any time, and must act strategically.\u003cbr\u003e The message that \"The Coming Western Pacific War\" truly seeks to convey is that such 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