Abstract There are increasing signs that the United States and China are on a collision course. Some scholars see this course as following the historical…
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Abstract On 15 December 2011, in a fortified compound at Baghdad International Airport, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta oversaw the formal end of America’s…
Abstract China could become the most powerful adversary the United States has ever faced. How might a war with China begin, how might it proceed,…
Abstract The reset in US–Russia relations has not been universally welcomed. There is much opposition within the Republican Party elite over both individual policies and…
Abstract Connections between the oil trade and international politics have declined in recent decades, but there is no reason to assume that these changes are…
Abstract This article suggests a new perspective on the old problem of protecting ships at sea, for two reasons. First, although screen tactics and other…
Abstract The post–Cold War interlude during which U.S. maritime access to and within overseas regions of grand strategic importance faced few challenges was a historical…
Abstract The increasing dependence on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has unleashed a whole new genre of cyber terrorism. Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, online…
Abstract Seapower and Sino-U.S. Relations is a comparative study of the quest for sea power by nations that are considered “maritime power states” and “continental…
Abstract Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s top submarines—Silversides, Drum, and Tang—The War Belowvividly re-creates the camaraderie, exhilaration, and fear of the brave…
Abstract In the last decade, the dynamics of inter-state relations in the Asia Pacific have changed rapidly, largely due to the rise of China. Competition…
Abstract The U.S. Navy has never been comfortable with theory or doctrine at whatis now known as the operational level of war. The Navy has…
Abstract This article examines possible consequences of U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russian annexation of Crimea and claims to territory inhabited by ethnic Russian…
Excerpt Maritime commerce warfare” has a distinctly dated whiff. The great Anglo- American naval theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the Colomb brothers,…
Excerpt Wang Yilin, chairman of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOO C), reportedly told an audience at CNOO C’s headquarters in Beijing in May…
