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  • Mao's Army Goes to Sea

    The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy

    New details about the founding of China’s Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategyFrom 1949 to 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China’s periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key offshore islands from the Nationalist rival, Mao Zedong needed to develop ... Leer más

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  • The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy

    Ensuring Access and Promoting Security

    Series series South Asia in World Affairs series
    The Indian Ocean, with its critical routes for global commerce, is a potentially volatile location for geopolitical strife. Even as the region’s role in the international economy and as a highway to conflict zones increases, the US has failed to advance a coherent strategy for protecting its interests in the Indian Ocean or for managing complex diplomatic relationships across the region. The ... Leer más

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  • Deep Currents and Rising Tides

    The Indian Ocean and International Security

    The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy, and related threats to seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and possibly the scene of future clashes ... Leer más

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  • Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age

    Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon

    A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more states to cross the nuclear-weapons threshold from Iran to Japan ... Leer más

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  • The New Makers of Modern Strategy

    From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

    The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, ... Leer más

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  • Red Star Over the Pacific, Third Edition

    China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy

    The latest edition of Red Star over the Pacific explores how China’s growing sea power—shaped by both Western and Chinese strategic thought—threatens U.S. maritime dominance in Asia and demands urgent adaptation by American sea services.In this third edition of Red Star over the Pacific, authors Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes assess how the rise of Chinese sea power challenges American ... Leer más

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  • Middle Powers and the Rise of China

    China’s rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as “middle powers” are responding to China’s growing economic, diplomatic, and military power. States with capabilities immediately below those of great powers, middle powers still exercise influence far above most other states. ... Leer más

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  • Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century

    The Turn to Mahan

    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy.Economics is the prime motivation for maritime reorientation, and securing the sea lanes that convey foreign ... Leer más

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  • Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions.By a quirk of historical fate, Europe embarked on its Age of Discovery just as the main Asian powers were renouncing the sea, ushering in centuries of Western dominance. In the 21st century, however, Asian states ... Leer más

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    Mao's Army Goes to Sea

    The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy

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    From 1949 to 1950, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China's periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key offshore islands from the Nationalist rival, Mao Zedong needed to develop maritime capabilities. Mao's Army Goes to Sea is a ground-breaking history of the founding of the Chinese navy and ... Leer más

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  • The End of Grand Strategy

    US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century

    In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America's military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the ... Leer más

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