USSC Research Associate Kester Abbott writes for the Pacific Forum on “Empowering Allies’ Defence Industrial Capabilities to Bolster Deterrence in Asia.”

In this article, Kester examines how the United States could attempt to offset logistical, supply, and production shortfalls in its primary strategic theatre by empowering key regional allies’ defence industrial capabilities. In overcoming longstanding industry barriers and competing political priorities, the United States can help enable willing and technologically capable allies like Japan, Australia and South Korea to help resource growing gaps in the US defence industrial base, which has historically undergirded a credible deterrence.