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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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Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

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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1682473570

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Mao's Army Goes to Sea

The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy

By: Toshi Yoshihara

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The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy

By: Toshi Yoshihara

New details about the founding of China’s Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy 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 Communist China’s earliest island-seizing campaigns. In this definitive account of a little-known yet critical moment in China’s naval history, Toshi Yoshihara shows that Chinese leaders refashioned the stratagems and tactics honed over decades of revolutionary struggle on land for nautical purposes. Despite significant challenges, the PLA ultimately scored important victories over its Nationalist foes as it captured offshore islands to secure its position. Drawing extensively from newly available Chinese-language sources, this book reveals how the navy-building process, sea battles, and contested offshore landings had a lasting influence on the PLA. Even today, the institution’s identity, strategy, doctrine, and structure are conditioned by these early experiences and myths. Mao’s Army Goes to Sea will help US policymakers and scholars place China’s recent maritime achievements in proper historical context—and provide insight into how its navy may act in the future.

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Georgetown University Press

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164712283X

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Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

By: James R. Holmes,Andrew C. Winner,Toshi Yoshihara

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Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

By: James R. Holmes,Andrew C. Winner,Toshi Yoshihara

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 are once again resuming a naval focus, with both China and India dedicating some of their new-found wealth to building powerful navies and coast guards, and drawing up maritime strategies to govern the use of these forces. The United States, like the British Empire before it, is attempting to manage these rising sea powers while preserving its maritime primacy. This book probes how India looks at the sea, what kind of strategy and seagoing forces New Delhi may craft in the coming years, and how Indian leaders may use these forces. It examines the material dimension, but its major premise is that navies represent a physical expression of a society's history, philosophical traditions, and culture. This book, then, ventures a comprehensive appraisal of Indian maritime strategy. This book will be of interest to students of sea power, strategic studies, Indian politics and Asian Studies in general. James R. Holmes is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College and a former U.S. Navy surface warfare officer. Toshi Yoshihara is an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College. Andrew C. Winner is Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College.

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1134052111

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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

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Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century

The Turn to Mahan

By: James R. Holmes,Toshi Yoshihara

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The Turn to Mahan

By: James R. Holmes,Toshi Yoshihara

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 energy supplies and other commodities now ranks near or at the top of China’s list of military priorities. This book is the first systematic effort to test the interplay between Western military thought and Chinese strategic traditions vis-à-vis the nautical arena. It uncovers some universal axioms about how theories of sea power influence the behaviour of great powers and examines how Mahanian thought could shape China’s encounters on the high seas. Empirical analysis adds a new dimension to the current debate over China’s ‘rise’ and its importance for international relations. The findings also clarify the possible implications of China’s maritime rise for the United States, and illuminate how the two powers can manage their bilateral interactions on the high seas. Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century will be of much interest to students of naval history, Chinese politics and security studies.

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Mao's Army Goes to Sea

The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy

By: Toshi Yoshihara

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The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy

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Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century

The Turn to Mahan

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The Turn to Mahan

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This volume is the first systematic effort to test the interplay between Western military thought and Chinese strategic traditions vis-à-vis the nautical arena.

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Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

By: James R. Holmes,Andrew C. Winner,Toshi Yoshihara

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Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age

Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon

By: Toshi Yoshihara,James R. Holmes

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Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age

Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon

By: Toshi Yoshihara,James R. Holmes

A â€œsecond nuclear ageâ€? 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 suggest that the second nuclear age of many competing nuclear powers has the potential to be even less stable than the first. Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age assembles a group of distinguished scholars to grapple with the matter of how the United States, its allies, and its friends must size up the strategies, doctrines, and force structures currently taking shape if they are to design responses that reinforce deterrence amid vastly more complex strategic circumstances. By focusing sharply on strategyâ€”that is, on how states use doomsday weaponry for political gainâ€”the book distinguishes itself from familiar net assessments emphasizing quantifiable factors like hardware, technical characteristics, and manpower. While the emphasis varies from chapter to chapter, contributors pay special heed to the logistical, technological, and social dimensions of strategy alongside the specifics of force structure and operations. They never lose sight of the human factorâ€”the pivotal factor in diplomacy, strategy, and war.

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1589019288

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Book's by Toshi Yoshihara

Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

Mao's Army Goes to Sea

Mao's Army Goes to Sea

Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition

Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century

Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century

Mao's Army Goes to Sea

Mao's Army Goes to Sea

Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century

Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century

Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age

Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age

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