POTENTIAL CHINA-US WAR AND EUROPEAN DEFENSE
Discussion of Possible Implications and Threats
The article discusses the implications of a potential outbreak of high-intensity violent conflict between the United States and China in Pacific for the defence of NATO’s eastern flank. It identifies limits of American ability to simultaneously project force to two distant regions as potentially critical weakness in case of concurrent conflict in Asia and threat to the eastern flank.
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Acknowledgements
This article was written within the scope of the Charles University Grant Agency project No. 1294119 "Circumventing the Tyranny of Distance: Determinants of Military Power Projection Capability" and the Charles University project UNCE/HUM/28 (Peace Research Center Prague). The author is grateful to both of the anonymous reviewers, and to colleagues Jan Ludvík, Tomáš Kučera, Roksolana Dryndak, Ondřej Rosendorf, Michal Smetana, Michal Parízko, Tomáš Weiss and Jakub Tesar for their excellent comments on the manuscript.
Keywords
United States; China; European Defence; Power Projection.
Title in English: | POTENTIAL CHINA-US WAR AND EUROPEAN DEFENSE |
Title in Czech: | POTENCIÁLNÍ ČÍNSKO-AMERICKÁ VÁLKA A EVROPSKÁ OBRANA |
Type: | Article |
Author(s): | Vojtěch BAHENSKÝ |
Language: | Czech |
Abstract: | English/Czech |
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ISSN: | ISSN 1214-6463 (print) and ISSN 1802-7199 (online) |
DOI: | 10.3849/1802-7199.21.2021.01.053-070 |
Issue: | Volume 21, Number 1 (June 2021) |
Pages: | 053-070 |
Received: | 17.09.2020 |
Accepted: | 01.04.2021 |
Published online: | 20.06.2021 |
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