Mark Cozad

Mark Cozad is a Senior International Defense Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation focusing on East Asia military and security issues.

Mark Cozad is a Senior International Defense Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation focusing on East Asia military and security issues. Prior to coming to RAND he was a senior executive in the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with a primary focus on East Asia.

Articles by Mark Cozad

The U.S. Response to China’s Military Modernization
Mark Cozad,   June 4, 2015

he 114th Congress has the opportunity to set the tone in military relations with China through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2015. As the NDAA awaits approval in the Senate, some analysts have raised concerns about the potential for an escalating arms race between the United States and China, while others have emphasized the rate of growth in China’s military expenditures and lack of transparency in budgets and intentions. China has consistently increased its official annual defense expenditures for more than two decades, while appearing to emphasize strategic forces modernization and the development of key anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities. These military investments provide China with a greater ability to project and sustain power at increasingly longer ranges while also challenging U.S. power-projection capabilities by attempting to undermine traditional U.S. technological advantages.