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Reconsidering a Naval Blockade of China: A Response to Mirski
Abstract
Sean Mirski's assessment of a naval blockade is an important contribution to the debate over how the United States should respond to China's growing military power. Nevertheless, it has three limitations. First, although distant and close-in blockades could be employed in tandem, analyzing them separately helps to explain when they might be used and how they could influence escalation. Second, while conventional countervalue and counterforce options could also be employed together, this would depend on the degree to which they overlapped and the order in which they were implemented. Third, a blockade could lead to unanticipated prewar, intra-war, and postwar challenges.
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- Published online: 31 May 2013
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- a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments , Washington , DC , USA
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Evan Braden Montgomery is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). In addition to authoring a number of CSBA monographs, his work has appeared in International Security, Security Studies, and Foreign Affairs.
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