GUARDIAN TIGER: Deterring, Preparing for, and Countering Limited Nuclear Attacks in East Asia

Markus Garlauskas will discuss the GUARDIAN TIGER effort on deterring, preparing for and countering limited nuclear attacks in East Asia, with allies and partners. His remarks will primarily focus on the results of the Guardian Tiger I and II tabletop exercises sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which have been cleared for public release and are about to be published by the Atlantic Council. These exercises explored the risk of limited nuclear attacks, including the risk of simultaneous conflicts in the Indo-Pacific, and the challenges of working with allies and partners to counter these threats.

Markus Garlauskas is the director of the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He leads this initiative’s efforts focused on conflict and nuclear deterrence, United States strategy, and building cooperation with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. He led projects focused on deterrence and defense issues in East Asia as a nonresident senior fellow from August 2020 until assuming his duties as the first director of IPSI in January 2023.

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