Bridging US-led Alliances in the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific: An Inter-Theater Perspective

By Luis Simón

12.05.2022

Although U.S. strategic competition with China and Russia is often presented as a challenge with two separate fronts, this brief argues that the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific theaters are increasingly linked. Insofar as preserving a favorable balance of power in these two regions hinges largely on U.S. power, and as long as they both continue to exercise a significant pressure on U.S. defense resources, their alliance and deterrence architectures should be looked at from an inter-theater perspective. Thus, optimally managing a two-front challenge would require a serious effort to bridge U.S.-led alliances in both regions.

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