Sea Power Conference 2021: Session One: Adversary Concepts for Competition and Limited War at Sea
Across the world, peer and sub-peer competitors are reconceptualising conflict. Rather than being a discrete phase of operations, short sharp periods of high intensity conflict are expected to interrupt periods of persistent lower intensity competition, before both sides disengage and return to competition. Whether one examines the Chinese concept of local war or Russia’s approach to escalation management, the underlying belief that conflict is likely to be a persistent but limited feature of interstate relations and that escalation is eminently manageable permeates adversary approaches to competition. This panel will examine the evolution in the strategic thinking of key competitors, and ways it will impact the maritime operating environment. Chair: Veerle Nouwens, Research Fellow, International Security Studies, RUSI Speakers: Michael Kofman, Senior Research Scientist, CNA Professor James Holmes, Associate Professor of Strategy, US Naval War College - ‘Home Team vs. Home Team in the Western Pacific’ Professor Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh Burke Chair, CSIS - ‘The Real-World Challenges of “Naval” Joint All Domain Operations’ For more information visit: https://rusi.org/event/sea-power-virtual-conference-2021-transforming-maritime-forces-age-persistent-competition
Across the world, peer and sub-peer competitors are reconceptualising conflict. Rather than being a discrete phase of operations, short sharp periods of high intensity conflict are expected to interrupt periods of persistent lower intensity competition, before both sides disengage and return to competition. Whether one examines the Chinese concept of local war or Russia’s approach to escalation management, the underlying belief that conflict is likely to be a persistent but limited feature of interstate relations and that escalation is eminently manageable permeates adversary approaches to competition. This panel will examine the evolution in the strategic thinking of key competitors, and ways it will impact the maritime operating environment. Chair: Veerle Nouwens, Research Fellow, International Security Studies, RUSI Speakers: Michael Kofman, Senior Research Scientist, CNA Professor James Holmes, Associate Professor of Strategy, US Naval War College - ‘Home Team vs. Home Team in the Western Pacific’ Professor Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh Burke Chair, CSIS - ‘The Real-World Challenges of “Naval” Joint All Domain Operations’ For more information visit: https://rusi.org/event/sea-power-virtual-conference-2021-transforming-maritime-forces-age-persistent-competition