One idea is to attack an outer ring of enemy air defenses with F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, opening an alley for an F-22 stealth jet carrying sensitive surveillance pods to fly deeper into contested territory, where it could, for example, guide a powerful sea-launched cruise missile to a mobile or hidden target.
There are hard limits to China's willingness to advance American interests in Asia, because the two powers have deep disagreements about trade, contested territory in the South China Sea, and Taiwan.
The underlying reason for this 'failure' resides within a larger framework in which a conceptual ambiguity reflects a deeper issue: immunity itself has contested meanings.
Instead, those first Olympic medals were contested in pools only deep enough for a spot of advanced wading.
However, during the 1980s and 1990s, that link was contested; the so-called "deep ecology-ecofeminism debate" that emerged took centerstage in discussions of environmental philosophy (see Jim Cheney 1987; Cuomo 1994; Kheel 1990; Plumwood 1993; Salleh 1984; Warren 1999).
And through all this, it's what lends all of her excesses their grey air of inevitability, as if they have been ordered from deep within reality and simply cannot be contested, so no one ought to bother.
National attention has now turned to deep-red Alabama, as December's unexpectedly closely contested Senate election between Republican Roy Moore (who has been accused of sexually assaulting teenagers when he was in his 30s) and Democrat Doug Jones.
I love that this is where my belonging is least contested; this is where I care the deepest.
The Kurds were a long way from home, having driven 220 miles south from Irbil, deep into a region that for decades has been fiercely contested by the Kurdish north and the rest of Arab Iraq.
And the ultimate message of the evening was that, in this heavily contested Republican district, traditional party lines held up, despite deep local misgivings about Trump.
