RAND: China has rapidly improved its ability to reliably locate and to attack U.S. CSGs

A new research by RAND concluded that “China has rapidly improved its ability to reliably locate and to attack U.S. carrier-strike groups at distances of up to 2,000 km from its coast.”

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Kenneth R. Hendrix/Released (http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=69601) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The think tank suggests the Pentagon look at ways to degrade Chinese intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to counter this threat to U.S. surface warships.
It also wants military leaders to “consider alternative concepts of operation that rely less on the early use of carriers in waters near China’s coast.”

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