{"id":17789,"date":"2015-01-13T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=17789"},"modified":"2015-01-15T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:18:42","slug":"shored-based-anti-ship-missiles-when-the-land-commands-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/shored-based-anti-ship-missiles-when-the-land-commands-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Shore-based anti-ship missiles: when the land commands the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>It\u2019s traditionally said that \u2018the sea commands the land\u2019. But the relationship between the maritime and terrestrial domains is more complex than that suggests. Episodes like the attack against HMS Glamorgan in the closing stages of the 1982 Falklands War\u2014the ship was hit by a land-based Exocet missile\u2014show how sometimes the land may command the sea, or at least try to prevent the sea from commanding it. Technological progress over the ensuing decades, coupled with the current maritime tensions in the Indo-Pacific, and more generally the conflict between limited defence budgets and growing national naval ambitions, have revived the issue of land-based anti-ship missiles and the roles they should play. Interest is especially intense in countries building up their navies from a limited base (like the Philippines) or grappling with the realisation that the conventional maritime balance is shifting against them (like Taiwan).<\/p>\n

There are four basic questions:<\/p>\n