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Develop a long-term US strategy using the Ends, Ways, and Means model to address the South China sea crisis, keeping in mind points the second discussion question brought up about China's perceptions and that country's potential preparations for conflict. Since this is a dynamic situation, feel free to use the Lowy article from the course material, or explore these linked articles to learn about the latest events and hear regional perspectives.

First, develop strategic objectives (ends) based on the national interests, and the strategic environment. As you do this, keep Yarger's guidance on strategic objectives in mind: "objectives (ends) explain 'what' needs to be accomplished...strategic objectives directly serve the strategic purpose—the desired end state."

Second, develop "strategic concepts (ways) [that] explain 'how' the objectives are to be accomplished by the employment of the instruments of power...Strategic concepts link resources to the objectives by addressing who does what, where, when, and why to explain how an objective will be achieved."

Third, keeping in mind that this is at the strategic level, "determine the types and levels of resources [means] that are necessary to support the concepts of the strategy."

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The solution provides information, assistance and advice in tackling the task of analysing the South China Sea territorial contention crisis using the ends, ways and means model. Resources are listed for further exploration of the topic. A word version is attached.

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Hi and thank you for using Brainmass. The solution below should get you started. In this task, you are asking for help in presenting a discussion on the south china sea crisis from a US military strategy position. I suggest using this simple outline:
1. About the SCS crisis - 100 words
2. The scope (countries, their positions) - 300 words
3. Strategic Objectives (ends) based on national interests/environment - 200 words
4. Strategic concepts linked to resources (use ends, ways means model) - 200 words
5. Types & levels of Resources China/other countries - 200 words
6. Resources
This outline should yield 1000 words. Please note that the links you included in this post are not working. Information used here has been drawn from available resources and familiarity of the issue by this AE. You can use the listed resources to further explore the topic. All the best with your studies.
Sincerely,
AE 105878/Xenia Jones

South China Sea Crisis: EWM Model

The territorial dispute known as the South China Sea crisis encompasses the islands and maritime interests/claims of China, Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines and Vietnam being the sovereign states that are covered/reached or located within the waters of this vast sea at the south edge of the Pacific and the Asian continent. The question of ownership and claims in the South China Sea goes back to the period of colonisation when the France who controlled French Indochina help ownership claims of the maritime and island features of the sea. By 1939, pre ww2 then Empire of Japan claimed the Parcel and Spratly Islands for military purposes (Zhongqi, 2007), relinquishing control of the islands in the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco; the ambiguity of the status of the islands brought by this treaty however led to the Firth Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958 when the People's Republic of China (PRC/mainland China) made various claims, including the 9-dash line, the demarcation of PRC's control and ownership over the South China Sea.

This was received negatively by the countries listed above as based on the notion of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Wikipedia, 2021) and concepts of territorial waters, baseline and ...

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