Author: Colin S. GrayPublisher: New York, NY : Published in the U.S. by Ramapo Press [for] the National Strategy Information Center
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Maritime Strategy, Geopolitics, and the Defense of the West
Author: Colin S. GrayPublisher: New York, NY : Published in the U.S. by Ramapo Press [for] the National Strategy Information Center
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
China's Maritime Power And Strategy: History, National Security And Geopolitics
Author: Hailong JuPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981461940X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book conducts a comprehensive study on China's maritime strategy. It discusses the lessons of maritime power history that must be learnt by Chinese today, the relations between China's maritime strategy and domestic developing problems of China, the status and influence of maritime strategy from China's overall development strategy perspective, and the geopolitical targets of Chinese navy in 2050.China's maritime strategy is one of the most important academic and realistic subjects in the present and future. This book is the first book to discuss China's maritime strategy comprehensively in and outside China. It will give readers a better sense of why China has to develop its sea power, why it lays so much emphasis on Taiwan and the South China sea, why the country can make friends with India but not Japan, and why China's maritime strategy will never challenge America but has to face the pressure from America's maritime hegemony, and so on.
Coalition Defense Versus Maritime Strategy
Author: Ronald Wayne JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval strategy
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
America's Strategy in World Politics
Author: Nicholas J. SpykmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351532081
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States, he explained, was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War, envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally, Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U.S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia, and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War, the U.S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U.S. security, supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass, coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations, makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century.
The End of Grand Strategy
Author: Simon ReichPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501714643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In 'The End of Grand Strategy', Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge this common view. They eschew prescription in favour of describing and explaining what America's military actually does. They argue that each presidental administration inevitably resorts to each of the six variant of grand strategy that they implement simultaneously as a result of a series of fundamental recent changes - what they term 'calibrated strategies.' Reich and Dombrowski support their controversial argument by examining six major maritime operations, stretching from America's shores to every region of the globe. Each of these operations reflects one major variant of strategy. They conclude that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead.
Cold Water Politics
Author: Ola TunanderPublisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Northern waters of Europe and the Soviet Union have been described as the naval battleground of any future superpower conflict. The increased US-Soviet interest in mobile and concealed weapon platforms has led to heightened interest in these waters. Cold Water Politics surveys recent strategy policies and military planning of the superpowers in the region. Ola Tunander looks at the long-term geopolitical consequences for global peace and security, as well as for the Scandinavian Peninsula and the Northern waters.
The Evolution of the U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977-1986
Author: John B. HattendorfPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
... this is a case study of the process by which a strategy was developed and applied within the present American defense establishment ... bearing in mind the broad aspects involved in the rational development of a strategy through an understanding of national aims, technological and geographical constraints, and relative military abilities.
Maritime Strategy Or Coalition Defense?
Author: R. W. KomerPorthole
Author: Gurpreet S. KhuranaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788182748637
Category : Geopolitics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For a mariner, the 'porthole' of a ship is the view, not only to the port, but also to the wider world. The title of the book implies that a yearning in any person to have a closer look at geopolitical, strategic and maritime issues and developments leads to a more 'encompassing' perspective, and thus a better understanding and assimilation of realities concerning international affairs. The nautical chart in the porthole represents the prevailing geopolitical (including geo-economic) issues in the predominantly maritime-configured 'indo-Pacific' region, shaped by the strategic imperatives of the stakeholders in the region. The fragmented background represents the complexities of international relations and the existing voids in 'still-evolving' international law. The cover also depicts symbols of maritime power and nautical usage representing the salience of the seas for the regional countries to meet their overarching national objectives. The sea could be a source of natural resources, a medium for communications and access to resources, and an enabler of multifarious international engagements.
The Geopolitics Of Super Power
Author: Colin S. GrayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185033
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
What is Soviet-American competition all about? Is the Soviet Union a security problem that the United States must solve? Or is it an insecurity condition with which the U.S. must learn to live—and if so, on what terms? What kind of a player is the United States in the great game of power politics? In The Geopolitics of Super Power, one of our most respected strategic theorists answers these and other questions. In geopolitical terms, Colin Gray sees the Soviet-American antagonism as an enduring contest between a continental empire and a maritime coalition, each with its distinctive character and purposes. Gray explores the roots of the American style in foreign policy and strategy, and how that style relates to defense options. He identifies four broad alternatives for U.S. national security policy: passive and active means of containment, disengagement from foreign security commitments, and the "rollback" of the Soviet empire. Gray argues vigorously for active containment, for the systematic deemphasis of nuclear weapons, and for the intelligent use, for deterrence and defense purposes, of the West's great competitive strengths in the political, economic, and technological spheres.