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How the United States Would Fight China: The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory - Hardcover

Gady, Franz-Stefan

 
9780197838303: How the United States Would Fight China: The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0197838308 ISBN 13: 9780197838303
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Franz-Stefan Gady has advised US and European militaries on structural reform and the future of high-intensity warfare. An adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security, Washington, DC, he has conducted field research in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine. His latest book is The Return of War.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0197838308
ISBN 13 
9780197838303
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256