Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific by Howard M Hensel & Amit Gupta

Author:Howard M Hensel & Amit Gupta [Hensel, Howard M & Gupta, Amit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781032096063
Google: LaRmzgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 57869497
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-30T11:07:00+00:00

China’s sensor and command network

Over the past decade, China has invested heavily in a multi-dimensional surveillance and communications systems. By next decade, this sensor and command architecture should provide PLA commanders with the necessary target intelligence and coordination they will need to direct China’s air, naval, and missiles forces against adversary expeditionary threats.49

Of note are China’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, used for ocean surveillance. China’s latest SAR satellites are capable of all-weather, day and night imaging resolution of five meters or less, sufficient to detect adversary warships. By the early 2020s, the PLA’s ocean surveillance satellite coverage will likely be sufficient to revisit targeted areas in the western Pacific every 30 minutes, sufficient to track and target adversary warship task forces underway.50

The Indo-Pacific maritime region has undergone a remarkable transformation since the end of the Cold War. Through most of this period, the United States was the undisputed master of this domain. As early as 2001, official U.S. Defense Department reports began to express concern about the growth of anti-access capabilities and the reconnaissance-strike complex problem.51 But bureaucratic complacency and the substantial distractions caused by major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drew away until very recently the attention of U.S. policymakers.

China is now making a substantial challenge to U.S. maritime primacy in the western Pacific. The PLA is implementing a largely asymmetric strategy that takes advantage of China’s continental position, its superiority across a broad range of missile classes, and redundant sensor and command networks, all focused on a distinct military problem: counter-intervention. China is thus on track to achieve its goals without having to match each item in the U.S. force structure, the essence of an effective competitive strategy.

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