Does America Have A Military Strategy Against China In The Event Of War?

August 18, 2011, Beijing, China: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is welcomed by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Heritage Foundation

America Has No Military Strategy for China -- Seth Cropsey, Real Clear World

Given the intense media focus on the woes of Obamacare’s rollout, it’s not surprising that no one paid much attention when Japan scrambled its fighters three days in a row beginning on October 24th in response to Chinese military aircraft’s incursions into Japan’s airspace as the so far bloodless maneuvering over claims to Japan’s Senkaku islands sharpens.

A miscalculation that drew fire has the potential to enmesh us in a dispute that serves no one’s interest. An escalation of such a dispute would be disastrous. Yet the U.S. has no strategy for a conflict with China. The sole U.S. preparation for such an outcome is a set of ideas known as the AirSea Battle, (ASB).

The ASB is a concept that has taken root in the U.S. Defense Department as the Obama administration talks about rebalancing forces from the Middle East to Asia, and as the American high command gradually accepts the possibility that China may be a strategic competitor to the U.S.

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My Comment: There are probably a few plans .... the Pentagon is always preparing "what-if" scenarios. But on the political level I do sometimes wonder if U.S. policy and strategy against China is based more on hope than on any real plan or analysis.