2015•Australian defence force journalRequires access
The dragon and the eagle in the South China sea: Is conflict between China and the US inevitable?
Jason Blain
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Abstract
In 2011, Robert Kaplan proposed that the 21st century's defining battleground would be located not on the land masses of Europe or Asia but instead on water. Kaplan offered that just as German soil constituted the military front line of the Cold War, the waters of the South China Sea may constitute the military front line of the coming decades.