"China, Iran Creating 'No-Go' Zones to Thwart U.S. Military Power"

March 3, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

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"[C]ountries in places where the United States has strategic interests -- including the Persian Gulf and the Pacific -- are building 'sophisticated, new technologies to deny our forces access to the global commons of sea, air, space and cyberspace.' Those innocuous words spell trouble. While the U.S. military and strategy community is focused on Afghanistan and the fight in Marja, others – Iran and China, to name two – are chipping away at America's access to the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, the Persian Gulf and the increasingly critical extraterrestrial realms."

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