The U.S.-China Military Scorecard: Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996--2017

Heginbotham, Eric; Nixon, Michael; Morgan, Forrest; Heim, Jacob L.; Hagen, Jeff; Li, Sheng; Engstrom, Jeffrey; Libicki, Martin C.; DeLuca, P.M.; Shlapak, David A.

doi:10.7249/rr392

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“…A RAND Corporation study showed that Chinese forces would enjoy the advantage of proximity were a crisis or war against the United States to break out in the immediate periphery of the Chinese mainland. In spite of that, the longer the forces moved away from the mainland, the more Chinese advantages would shrink (Heginbotham et al 2015). As James Lebovic (2017) puts it 'China makes for a formidable opponent in any battle fought in and around the Chinese mainland but lacks air and naval power to extend its global reach' .…”

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Polarity in the Context of U.S.-China Competition: Reassessing Analytical Criteria

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Lucena²

2023

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How can polarity be used as a pertinent conceptual asset to inform the description of the distribution of military capabilities amongst the most powerful states in the international system today, especially in consideration of U.S.-China competition? Using the military power approach to polarity, this article analyses the literature that emerged in the 2010s to critically examine this concept. In order to enhance the analytical value of polarity and propose verifiable indicators of it, this study draws on Thompson’s lead-sector model as well as Posen’s and Lee and Thompson’s research on the military foundations of polarity. When doing so, we distinguish latent enabling capabilities (as a secondary dimension of polarity) and the actual military power that primarily characterises polarity as a label. When following this operationalisation of polarity, we show that the international system is still unipolar because the U.S. has unmatched global power projection capabilities and first-rate economic and technological might to sustain its military forces. In other words, the current distribution of military capabilities in the system reflects that the contemporary international system is still U.S.-led and unipolar and that China’s rise is still too confined by regional dynamics to constitute a preface of a military-hegemonic rivalry at a global level.

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Polarity in the Context of U.S.-China Competition: Reassessing Analytical Criteria

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2023

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“…For one, the U.S. military is facing a growing number of threats, including from China, Russia, Iran, and nonstate actors. 27 Furthermore, the military is confronting these threats on land, at sea, and in the air, as well as in cyberspace and space. 28 This has been compounded by a growing network of requirements from a variety of PME constituents who seek to build an adaptive program for future warfighting challenges.…”

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Imagining the Future of Professional Military Education in the United States: Results from a Virtual Workshop

2023

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Professional military education (PME) institutions prepare leaders for the complexity of future conflicts. Like other institutions of higher education, the PME system was forced to abruptly adapt its operations during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Given these changes, the RAND National Security Research Division organized a one-day virtual workshop of PME leaders to discuss future opportunities for their institutions following the pandemic. The workshop included participants from various PME institutions, J7 Directorate for Joint Force Development, RAND researchers, and other stakeholders, and the participants discussed objectives, requirements, capabilities, and implementation options for the continued evolution of PME programs. Participants generally agreed on PME's goals but tended to disagree on specific means for implementing them. These conference proceedings summarize the results of the workshop, including key themes discussed.The conference proceedings reported here were completed in February 2023 and underwent security review with the sponsor before public release.

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“…The real world Conceptual model Simulation model abstract achieve EEATI (Environment, Entity, Task and Interaction), an entity-oriented system analysis method, can describe the conceptual model of equipment completely [13] . The CMMS (Mission Space Conceptual Model) [14] of the US military uses the idea of EEATI to describe the combat system.…”

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Research of equipment combat simulation system

tang,

li,

et al. 2023

Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and Visualization (AIVRV 2023)

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The system concept of equipment modeling and simulation and the classification of equipment simulation system are introduced. According to the division of equipment simulation elements, the key technologies of equipment simulation are summarized to 6 aspects: military equipment combat theory, combat concept modeling, battlefield environment modeling, combat behavior modeling, command and information system modeling, and data simulation results visualization. The development of equipment combat simulation is prospected from four aspects: integration of equipment combat simulation, distributed simulation, big data and intelligent simulation, and the development direction of future combat simulation system are pointed out.

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The U.S.-China Military Scorecard: Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996--2017

Cited by 86 publications

References 2 publications

Polarity in the Context of U.S.-China Competition: Reassessing Analytical Criteria

Polarity in the Context of U.S.-China Competition: Reassessing Analytical Criteria

Imagining the Future of Professional Military Education in the United States: Results from a Virtual Workshop

Research of equipment combat simulation system

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