China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities -- Background and Issues for Congress
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities -- Background and Issues for Congress
- Neue Suche nach: R. O'Rourke
- Neue Suche nach: R. O'Rourke
Concern has grown in Congress and elsewhere about China's military modernization. The topic is an increasing factor in discussions over future required U.S. Navy capabilities. The issue for Congress addressed in this report is as follows: How should China's military modernization be factored into decisions about U.S. Navy programs. Several elements of China's military modernization have potential implications for future required U.S. Navy capabilities. These include theater-range ballistic missiles (TBMs), land- attack cruise missiles (LACMs), antiship cruise missiles (ASCMs), surface-to- air missiles (SAMs), land-based aircraft, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, naval mines, nuclear weapons, and possibly high-power microwave (HPM) devices. China's naval limitations or weaknesses include capabilities for operating in waters more distant from China, joint operations, C4ISR, long-range surveillance and targeting systems, anti-air warfare (AAW), antisubmarine warfare (ASW), mine countermeasures (MCM), and logistics. Observers believe a near-term focus of China's military modernization is to field a force that can succeed in a short-duration conflict with Taiwan and act as an anti-access force to deter U.S. intervention or delay the arrival of U.S. forces, particularly naval and air forces, in such a conflict. Some analysts speculate that China may attain a capable maritime anti-access force, or elements of it, by about 2010. Other observers believe this will happen later. Potential broader or longer-term goals of China's naval modernization include asserting China's regional military leadership and protecting China's maritime territorial, economic, and energy interests. China's naval modernization has potential implications for required U.S. Navy capabilities in terms of preparing for a conflict in the Taiwan Strait area, maintaining U.S. Navy presence and military influence in the Western Pacific, and countering Chinese ballistic missile submarines.
Dokumentinformationen
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities -- Background and Issues for Congress
2006
85 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Military Sciences , International Relations , Military forces(Foreign) , Navy , Military capabilities , Military modernization , Military force levels , China , Naval planning , Antimissile defense systems , Pacific ocean , Naval vessels(Combatant) , Travel time , Taiwan , Antisubmarine warfare , Attack submarines , Hardening , Naval mine warfare , Conflict , Fleets(Ships) , Naval aircraft , Cruise missiles , Antiship missiles , Plan(People's liberation army navy) , Naval modernization , Navy capabilities , Taiwan strait crisis , Fleet size , Fleet division , Forward homeporting , Aaw(Anti-air warfare) , Hpm(High-power microwave weapons) , Emp(Electromagnetic pulse weapons) , Emp hardening , Ship travel times , Anti- access forces