Planning War with a Nuclear China

US Military Strategy and Mainland Strikes

John Speed Meyers

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Cambria Press
19 November 2023

Military engineering

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*This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Thomas G. Mahnken; Founding Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn)

Beginning in 2010, a public debate emerged about the role of so-called mainland strikes in any US military strategy toward China. Mainland strikes refer to wartime attacks on military targets located on the Chinese mainland with non-nuclear (""conventional"") weapons. This debate arose as American military strategists began to confront the implications of growing Chinese military power. Potential strategies were often defined, at least partially, by their relationship to and views toward mainland strikes. Some strategies assumed that an American president, and their advisers, would be willing to authorize or recommend mainland strikes in a future war with China. This course of action emphasized the procurement of a military force optimized to carry out these mainland strikes. Other strategies assumed an extreme unwillingness to recommend mainland strikes. These strategies called for building and training a military force capable of operational tasks other than mainland strikes.

This book investigates the soundness of these two contradictory assumptions about mainland strikes so that strategists and American military planners can better understand the course of a future US-China war. This is a war that will hopefully never occur due, in part, to sound American military planning that maintains deterrence. Armed with knowledge about the conditions that make mainland strikes more or less likely, both military and civilian decision-makers can create better military strategy toward China."

By: John Speed Meyers
Imprint: Cambria Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9781621966784
ISBN 10: 162196678X
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 19 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Speed Meyers is the head of research and development at Chainguard, a software supply chain security startup. He holds a PhD from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an MPA from Princeton University. Dr. Meyers has previously worked at In-Q-Tel, the RAND Corporation, and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.