The Most Significant Technical Challenges for the US Naval Forces at the South China Sea

Abstract

The United States of America’s Naval Forces constantly prepare for operations againstpotential adversaries, most notably the military threat posed by the People’s Republicof China. Chinese developments over the past decades have successfully reduced thetechnological and procedural gap compared with the US Navy in some areas, and insome cases they have already demonstrated certain advantages. In my study, I willexamine the US response to these challenges in the recent past, with regard to theNavy and the Marine Corps.