power-projection

Japan, the U.S. and other democracies need to improve their power-projection capabilities to check the rise of authoritarian China.

The Carrier of Asia-Pacific Troubles Fumio Ota 2011

A 2008 report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank that studies military technology, said that long-range pilotless aircraft had potential to transform carriers "from a power-projection system with outstanding global mobility but relatively limited tactical reach and persistence into a key component of a global surveillance-strike network."

Drone Will Call Aircraft Carriers Home Nathan Hodge 2011

In the longer-term, as guided weapons proliferate more widely, other countries may use them to constrain U.S. power-projection and deny it regional access.

No-Fly Zone, No Problem James Thomas 2011

‘Russia and China lack the capacity for that kind of power-projection ….’

Matthew Yglesias » Russia, China, and Iran 2010

It's also developing aircraft carriers and the other power-projection forces it feels it needs to protect its crucial energy shipments.

The Yanks Are Welcome in Oz Andrew Shearer 2011

The Mistral is one of the world's most advanced helicopter carriers, and would be a formidable power-projection tool for Moscow.

A Franco-Russian Rapprochement... Again Ariel Cohen 2010

Having a critical component of U.S. power-projection to be in any way significantly reliant on non-U.S. companies plays into the plans of those whose interests are inimical to ours, particular ly when those competitors have no demonstrated capability to provide what is promised.

There's More to the Tanker Contract Than Meets the Eye 2010

The Mistral is one of the world's most advanced helicopter carriers, and would be a formidable power-projection tool for Moscow.

A Franco-Russian Rapprochement... Again Ariel Cohen 2010

The Mistral is one of the world's most advanced helicopter carriers, and would be a formidable power-projection tool for Moscow.

A Franco-Russian Rapprochement... Again Ariel Cohen 2010

Now President Barack Obama is doing his predecessor one better: By imposing draconian defense cuts, heavily targeted on high-technology weapons systems and "power-projection" platforms essential to preserving U.S. military superiority in the Pacific, America may not have much of a derriere left in Asia at all.

Coming to Asia's Defense Dan Blumenthal 2009