![]() The ensuing counter strategy was to build a state of the art ship that could gracefully navigate shallow littoral zones. Missiles at a fraction of the cost of a multi-million dollar naval ship suddenly offered good odds of victory. Once there, they would carry out operations to degrade their opponents A2/AD capability, and prepare for a larger invasion landing. It fell on special forces and elite units to be able to slip through these overlapping bubbles of sensors and firepower, to make landfall. As China and other nations of the world invested in Anti-Area Access Denial (A2/AD), the United States found that its considerable naval forces were being shuttered out of being able to establish beachheads by the strategy.Ĭalled ‘A2/AD bubbles’ in military jargon, less technologically advanced countries figured out that a slow-moving large target of a ship was still vulnerable to massed cheap firepower.
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