دانلود کتاب The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

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Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Plan of the Book
Acknowledgments
1 The Purposes of American Strategy
The Fundamental Purposes of American Strategy
The Central Role of the Balance of Power
What Is the Balance of Power?
Who Matters for the Balance of Power?
Where Does the Balance of Power Matter?
What Is Balancing Supposed to Do?
Over What Time Period?
2 The Favorable Regional Balance of Power
The Challenges to Forming and Sustaining an Anti-Hegemonic Coalition
The Focused and Sequential Strategy
The Importance of a Coalition Cornerstone
The United States as an External Cornerstone Balancer
The Prospects for Anti-Hegemonic Coalitions Today
Asia
Europe
The Persian Gulf
The Rest of the World
3 Alliances and Their Effective, Credible Defense
The Role of Alliances within an Anti-Hegemonic Coalition
An Effective Defense
The Challenges to Mounting an Effective Defense
The Importance of Credibility
Differentiated Credibility
4 Defining the Defense Perimeter
Calibrating America’s Commitments to Support Its Differentiated Credibility
Implications
5 Military Strategy in Limited Wars
Military Strategy in a Limited War
Thinking about Limited War
How Nations Limit Wars
The Battle for Advantageous Rules
Prevailing in Limited War
The Burden of Escalation
Competitions in Resolve
Passing the Burden of Escalation
6 The Importance of Focusing on an Opponent’s Best Strategies
Why It Is Important to Understand China’s Best Military Strategies
The Trouble with Predicting How an Opponent Will Act
Dealing with Strategic Uncertainty
Focus on the Adversary’s Best Military Strategies
Alternative Models for Strategy
Preparing for Any Eventuality
The Most Likely Scenarios
The Most Destructive Scenarios
7 Beijing’s Best Strategy
Hide and Bide—and Its Limitations
Implementing the Focused and Sequential Strategy
Targeting a US Ally
Taiwan as the Initial Target
After Taiwan
Punishment and Conquest
The Punishment Approach
Perceived Advantages to the Punishment Approach
“A Great Deal of Ruin in a Nation”
The Demerits of Punishment
An Alternative to Punishment
The Conquest Approach
Brute Force, Coercion, and Conquest
The Strategic Uses of Conquest
The Fait Accompli
Conditions for the Success of a Fait Accompli
Using the Fait Accompli against a Coalition
Using the Fait Accompli to Fracture an Anti-Hegemonic Coalition
The Fait Accompli in China’s Strategic Calculus
8 A Denial Defense
The Infeasibility of Restoring Dominance
The False Allure of Cost Imposition Strategies
The Best US Strategy: Denial Defense
Denying the Fait Accompli
Denial Option 1: Denying the Attacker’s Ability to Seize Key Territory
Denial Option 2: Denying the Attacker’s Ability to Hold Seized Territory
9 Limited War after an Effective Denial Defense
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The Defenders’ Preferred Rule Set
The Limits of Chinese Horizontal Escalation
The Limits of Chinese Vertical Escalation
If Not Escalation
Protracted War
Settling In for a Long War
Compelling an End to the War
10 The Binding Strategy
Why a Denial Defense Might Fail
Adapting to the Failure of a Denial Defense
A Recapture Approach
The Demerits of Relying on Horizontal or Vertical Escalation for Recapture
Recapturing Taiwan
The Recapture Approach beyond Taiwan
Generating the Resolve
Strength and Determination
Choosing to Fight
The Inherent Subjectivity of Security
The Binding Strategy
Making China Fight in a Way That Changes the Coalition’s Threat Perception
The Sources of Higher Resolve
Aggressiveness
Ambition
Cruelty
Unreliability
Power
Revenge and Honor
Winning the War
The Binding Strategy and Denial Defense
Putting and Keeping the Burden of Escalation on China
The Binding Strategy in Cold War Europe
11 Implications
Military Implications
The US Defense Perimeter
Changing the US Defense Perimeter?
Outside Asia
India
Southeast Asia
Collective Defense
Japan
Australia
The Anti-Hegemonic Effort in Asia and Broader US Defense Strategy
Managing the Deadliest Threats
Pandemics
Nuclear Deterrence
Counterterrorism
The Core Missions of the US Armed Forces
The Issue of Simultaneity
North Korea
Iran
Russia
What If the Strategy Is Too Much to Bear?
Friendly Nuclear Proliferation
12 A Decent Peace
Notes
Index