Procurement Priorities

The last of my three columns on the Biddle-Oelrich International Security article: 

A recent International Security article by Stephen Biddle and Ivan Oelrich (summarized here, here, and here) foresees an East Asian military landscape in which states use land-based cruise, ballistic, and surface-to-air missiles to develop anti-access/area denial bubbles. Skeptical of the prospects for breaking such a system, Biddle and Oelrich predict a future in which the military balance decidedly favors the defense.