TY - BOOK AU - SIMON Luis TI - Between punishment and denial: uncertainty, flexibility, and U.S. military strategy toward China PY - 2020/// KW - UNITED STATES KW - MILITARY STRATEGY KW - UNITED STATES-CHINA KW - RIVALRY KW - DEFENCE POLICY KW - DETERRENCE N2 - The high level of uncertainty around Chinese capabilities and the evolving Sino-American regional military balance have led the United States to adopt a flexible strategy, and embrace distinct-even contradictory-operational concepts to deter Beijing: The United States itself mostly focuses primarily on deterrence by punishment, while actively encouraging and enabling its regional allies to develop deterrence by denial UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2020.1713604 ER -