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How the United States would fight China : the risks of pursuing a rapid victory / Franz-Stefan Gady.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gady, Franz-Stefan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--China.
- United States--Armed Forces--Operational readiness.
- Military planning--United States.
- Military planning.
- Military planning--China.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Nuclear crisis stability.
- China--Military policy.
- China.
- China--Foreign relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- This book dissects precisely how the United States imagines fighting the People's Republic of China, and why it risks failing. Franz-Stefan Gady contends that the US military approach to a potential conflict over Taiwan is unlikely to succeed, relying heavily on both rapidly established information superiority and a decisive victory. This may increase the threat of nuclear escalation between the world's only superpowers. The more likely scenario is a prolonged war of attrition across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace. America's society, armed forces and industrial capacity are ill-prepared for this--a deficiency stemming from a military culture that prioritises advanced technology over mass, and from a lack of public or political will for the sacrifices required by such a conflict. Gady's superb research and analysis, based on US doctrine, force structure and general 'ways of war', reveal the significant risks to the United States in a potential conflict with China, whether in the 2020s or 2030s.
- Contents:
- Joint operations and systems warfare
- Cyber operations
- Space operations
- Air and maritime operations
- Land operations
- Theories of success.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academics, viewed on June 16, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version : Gady, Franz-Stefan. How the United States would fight China.
- ISBN:
- 9781805266099
- 1805266098
- OCLC:
- 1535836879
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000255678
- CIPO000292364
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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