How Useful Is Classical Maritime Strategy in an Age of Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles?
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By Richard Dunley
June 30, 2020
How Useful Is Classical Maritime Strategy in an Age of Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles?
Defence commentators have devoted much attention in recent years to the development of long-range anti-ship missiles, whether in the form of anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) or hypersonic cruise missiles. These discussion invariably focus on the concept of anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) and its employment by China, or occasionally Russia or Iran, against the US Navy. Some observers have gone on to question whether such technologies render high-value surface warships defunct.
These debates are important and interesting but have tended to miss larger questions about how the new technologies may have altered the relative balance of power between land and sea, and what impact this has on maritime strategy in general.
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