Sino-U.S. Competition and U.S. Security

How Do We Assess the Military Balance?

Dan Blumenthal

Sino-U.S. Competition and U.S. Security

Assessments of the military competition between China and the U.S. are badly needed but mostly missing. Such assessments should consider the political objectives of the competitors, their military doctrines, and alliance politics, in addition to quantitative measures of military power in the...