Anti-Access Warfare : Countering A2/AD Strategies / Sam J. Tangredi -

Introduction

Chapter 1. A tale of Two Wars

Chapter 2. Developing the Modern Concept of Anti-Access

Chapter 3. The Anti-Access Campaign and Its Defeat

Chapter 4. Three Anti-Access Victories

Chapter 5. Three Anti-Access Defeats

Chapter 6. East Asia: Most Formidable Challenge

Chapter 7. Southwest Asia: Asymmetrical Tactics And Economic Threats

Chapter 8. Northeast Asia: Cognitive Anti-Access and Threats of Nuclear War

Chapter 9. Central Eurasia: Russia and the Near Abroad

Chapter 10. Breaking Great Walls: Issues of Modern Counter-Anti-Access Strategies

This is the first book to examine the concept of anti-access and area denial warfare, providing a definitive introduction to both conceptual theories and historical examples of this strategy. Also referred to by the acronym A2/AD, anti access warfare has been identified in American strategic planning as the most likely strategy to be employed by the people's Republic of China or by the Islamic Republic of Iran in any future conflict with the United States. While previous studies of the subject have emphasized the effects of the joint force and, air force in particular, this important new study advances the understanding of sea power by identifying the naval roots of the development of the anti-access concept. Rather than arguing against the reliance on maritimes forces -presumably because they are no longer survivable- Tangredi maintains that history argues that maritime capabilities are key to countering anti-access operations.