"The Epoch of Competition": how the US is preparing for a possible conflict with Russia and China

A group of US Air Force experts from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) prepared the report Air Force in an Era of Power Rivalry. The 210-page document is dedicated to air doctrine, bundling, and the development paths of the US Air Force. Among the authors of the report are former commanders of American aviation with a rank not lower than colonel. In order to be ready for possible conflicts, and especially with Russia, CSBA experts suggest the Pentagon and the US Congress to invest more in modernizing the fleet.

Among the authors of the report are former commanders of American aviation with a rank not lower than colonel. In order to be ready for possible conflicts, and especially with Russia, CSBA experts suggest the Pentagon and the US Congress to invest more in modernizing the fleet.

In addition to the confrontation with Russia, the authors of the report point to the likely conflict between the US and China in the Pacific region.

“As part of the process of restoring its power, influence and well-being, China seeks to expand control over the disputed territories within the“ first chain of islands ”in the western Pacific, undermine confidence in the United States as a guarantor of regional security and ultimately establish its dominant role there,” - the document says. Recall that the water area of ​​the South China Sea and the groups of the Paracel Islands located in it and the Spratly archipelago are contested by several states at once: China, Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines. The islands are of strategic importance, as they pass the sea routes connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.