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Embracing Communist China

America's Greatest Strategic Failure

By: James Fanell,Bradley Thayer

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Embracing Communist China

America's Greatest Strategic Failure

By: James Fanell,Bradley Thayer

For decades, the United States has underestimated the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it has left our country vulnerable to their devious plans—a profound, strategic miscalculation. As a result of this carelessness, the United States is at risk of losing its dominant position in global politics. But how did this happen? How was it possible that the US could lose its dominant position after its Cold War victory and allow the rise of a peer enemy over a short period of time—about thirty years? In Embracing Communist China, authors James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer get to the bottom of this heinous miscalculation. Broken down into three central arguments, Fanell and Thayer lay out not only the reason for China’s rise in power, but how the United States could have prevented it. Due to failures on the parts of the national security commission, strategists, military personnel, and the intelligence community, a historical case of “threat deflation” caused our country to refute all supplied information of China’s growing power. By not taking this seriously, the PRC has risen with the goal of usurping the US as a global superpower. US business interests and financiers trumped strategy. Seeing China as a source of cheap labor for manufacturing, investment, and intellectual labor—including for research and development—the mighty dollar’s influence reigned supreme, overlooking the big picture. With their advancements, China used its political warfare strategy to promote threat deflation under Deng Xiaoping. As such, the PRC—learning key lessons from the Soviet Union’s mistakes in the Cold War—focused on elites from all aspects of US and other Western societies, enriching them and shaping their perception of China and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while using the enticement of a growing market to influence their behavior. As Americans, we can no longer think of China as a secondary power, but one that is looking to remove the US as the most powerful country in the world. By understanding the profound strategic failures made by the US are we are able to correct them and so defeat the PRC as the we did the Soviet Union.

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Simon and Schuster

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1648210600

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9781648210600

Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

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

By: Toshi Yoshihara,James Holmes

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

By: Toshi Yoshihara,James Holmes

Combining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea-power theory, the authors assess how the rise of Chinese sea power will affect U.S. maritime strategy in Asia. They argue that China has laid the groundwork for a sustained challenge to American primacy in maritime Asia, and to defend this hypothesis they look back to Alfred Thayer Mahan’s sea-power theories, now popular with the Chinese. The book considers how strategic thought about the sea shapes Beijing’s deliberations and compares China’s geostrategic predicament to that of the Kaiser’s Germany a century ago. It examines the Chinese navy’s operational concepts, tactics, and capabilities and appraises China’s missile force. The authors conclude that China now presents a challenge to America’s strategic position of such magnitude that Washington must compete in earnest.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682473570

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9781682473573

The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition

Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

By: James J. Wirtz,Jeffrey E. E. Kline,James A. A. Russell

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The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition

Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

By: James J. Wirtz,Jeffrey E. E. Kline,James A. A. Russell

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy operations in the Western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and its new anti-access and area-denial capabilities threaten the aircraft carrier-based maritime dominance of the U.S. Navy. Military and political trends in the Western Pacific and beyond suggest that the world is encountering a pivotal moment when existing weapons, tactics, and operations might be rendered obsolete by techno-strategic change. This volume considers these developments from three perspectives by describing: (1) the techno-strategic setting; (2) the institutional constraints that impede the ability of the U.S. Navy to respond to these changes; and (3) a new approach to naval force planning and strategy to cope with these developments. The volume culminates in a discussion of sophisticated strategies and operational concepts that position the U.S. Navy and its maritime allies and partners to prevail in today’s techno-strategic churn. This book will be of much interest to students of naval policy, strategic studies, Asia-Pacific politics, and International Relations.

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166

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Taylor & Francis

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1003837204

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9781003837206

Disruptive Technology and the Law of Naval Warfare

By: James Kraska,Raul A. Pedrozo

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Disruptive Technology and the Law of Naval Warfare

By: James Kraska,Raul A. Pedrozo

Introduction -- Merchant ships -- Unmanned maritime systems -- Lethal autonomous weapons -- Submarine warfare -- Seabed warfare -- Missile warfare and nuclear weapons -- Naval operations in outer space.

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Oxford University Press

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0197630189

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9780197630181

Dispatches from the South China Sea

Navigating to Common Ground

By: James Borton

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Dispatches from the South China Sea

Navigating to Common Ground

By: James Borton

The impact of continuous coastal development, reclamation, destruction of corals, overfishing and increased maritime traffic places all of us on the front lines of preserving our oceans. Marine biologists, who share a common language that cuts across political, economic and social differences, recognize that the sea’s remarkable coral reefs, which provide food, jobs and protection against storms and floods, have suffered unprecedented rates of destruction in recent decades. Dispatches from the South China Sea’s blend of participatory research and field reportage paves the way for a transformation of policy and, provides a basis for the eventual resolution of some of today’s major maritime conflicts. From overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, Dispatches from the South China Sea charts science-driven cooperation opportunities. James Borton purposefully and passionately argues that the South China Sea can become a body of water that unites, rather than divides.

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Universal-Publishers

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1627343709

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Embracing Communist China

America's Greatest Strategic Failure

By: James Fanell,Bradley Thayer

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America's Greatest Strategic Failure

By: James Fanell,Bradley Thayer

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Embracing Communist China

Embracing Communist China

Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition

The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition

Disruptive Technology and the Law of Naval Warfare

Disruptive Technology and the Law of Naval Warfare

Dispatches from the South China Sea

Dispatches from the South China Sea

Embracing Communist China

Embracing Communist China

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