Video: How the United States Would Fight China

PROGRAMME

00:00:00 Introduction, Senior Fellow Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)

00:04:55 Book presentation, Franz-Stefan Gady

00:37:35 Book discussion with Franz-Stefan Gady and Professor Henrik Stålhane Hiim, IFS. Moderator: Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson, IFS

01:06:04 Q&A from the audience

Arguing that the United States is at real risk of strategic defeat in any war with China, Franz-Stefan Gady’s new book How the United States Would Fight China: The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory dissects precisely how the United States imagines fighting the People's Republic of China, and why it risks failing.

Utilising his long experience in advising Western militaries about the future of warfare, Gady offers a vital analysis of one of the crucial questions shaping the ongoing superpower competition between US and Cina.

He contends that the US military approach to a potential conflict over Taiwan is unlikely to succeed, relying heavily on both rapidly established information superiority and a decisive victory. This may increase the threat of nuclear escalation between the world's only superpowers.

Franz-Stefan Gady has advised US and European militaries on structural reform and the future of high-intensity warfare. He is founder and chief executive officer of Gady Consulting.

Franz-Stefan is also a consulting senior fellow with the Institute for International Strategic Studies and an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for New American Security.

The seminar was a collaboration between the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) and Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt (NUPI)'s Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics.