Revisiting Great Power Maritime Strategy in Critical Choke Points

BIPSS Research Assistant Nazmul Islam Mahmud explores the great power maritime strategy, considering the geopolitical and geoeconomic implications of the critical choke-points. He finds that the critical choke points are critical as it does not delimit the conventional great power definition. The critical geographic proximity to critical choke points determines the importance of a particular region and the regional power to become influential in global politics. Within this scenario, the US and China are pursuing power projection and an A2/AD strategy, while other regional powers are having strategic ambiguities in pursuing localized A2/AD.