Anti-access/area denial
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Anti-access/area denial is a military strategy to control access to and within an operating environment. In an early definition, anti-access refers to those actions and capabilities, usually long-rang
An S-400 surface-to-air missile system can be used as an A2/AD asset.
The KD-88 anti-ship missile is part of China's A2/AD weaponry.
Gari Melchers War Highsmith
Nine-dash line
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The nine-dash line, also referred to as the eleven-dash line by Taiwan, is a set of line segments on various maps that accompany the claims of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China
Anti-access/area denial
…A2/AD strategy to exclude or deter as many adversary forces from acting within the waters it claims as its territorial waters as outlined by the nine-dash line. The initial impulse for this strategy is said to have been the deployment of two US carrier battle groups in the area, reacting to Chinese tests and…
South China Sea claims and agreements (showing the nine-dash line as well as an additional tenth dash near the island of Taiwan).