Summary This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between…
Topic: Maritime Security
Summary This book assesses India’s role as a major power in the Indian Ocean. Many see the Indian Ocean as naturally falling within India’s sphere…
Summary The emergence of India as a regional and potentially global power is forcing us to rethink our mental map of the Asia Pacific. We…
This article covers plans for Japan and the United States to help member nations of ASEAN to “strengthen their maritime surveillance capabilities,” in a move “apparently…
From the article: “Taiwan should consider seriously whether it should take a proactive approach to defusing tensions in the South China Sea by elucidating the…
The article makes the case that China is pursuing an expensive aircraft carrier plan due to prestige benefits, the need to manage a complex regional…
Executive Summary: U.S. administrations and officials are consistently caught flat-footed by the increasing assertiveness of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over disputed territories in the East China…
Summary On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention…
Summary China’s rise casts a vast and uncertain shadow over the regional balance of power in the Asia Pacific, and nowhere is this clearer than…
Summary This title will explore China’s strategic interests in the South China Sea, with a specific emphasis on power projection and resource security. China’s regional actions…
Summary From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that…
Summary In this powerful and alarming defense of American seapower, longtime Navy insider Seth Cropsey blows the whistle on America’s weakening naval might in the…
Summary This is the first book to examine the concept of anti-access and area denial warfare, providing a definitive introduction to both conceptual theories and…
Summary Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy – The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) – and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military…
Continue reading Saunders, Phillip C., Christopher D. Yung, Michael Swaine, and Andrew en-Dzu Yang
Summary One of the key concerns of naval strategists and planners today is the nature of the Chinese geostrategic challenge. Conceding that no one can…
Continue reading Erickson, Andrew S., Lyle J. Goldstein, Andrew R. Wilson, William S. Murray ed
