Vendredi, 22. juillet 2011 9:00
Ifri’s Security Studies Center has just published a new Focus stratégique titled:
Toward the End of Force Projection? I. The Anti-Access Threat
The author is Corentin Brustlein, a research fellow in Ifri’s Defense Research Unit. He is also the deputy editor of the Proliferation Papers, and blogs at Ultima Ratio.
Abstract:
Force projection has become a general posture and a fundamental dimension of the influence Western powers intend to exert over the world by means of their armed forces. However, for the last fifteen years, Western states’ adoption of expeditionary postures has encouraged the proliferation of certain technologies. The latter favor strategies based on naval and air interdiction, and threaten to render foreign interventions too costly. This article thus seeks to provide some clues for understanding and assessing the threat anti-access strategies pose to Western, and especially European, force projection capabilities. In order to illustrate in a concrete way the potential problems regional adversaries can pose, this article will focus on assessing the Iranian anti-access threat.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Force Projection and the Anti-Access Threat
Countering Force Projection Operations
This article is available on Ifri’s website.
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