Red Star Over the Pacific, Second Edition: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy

by James Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682479404
• ISBN13: 9781682479407
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 376 Pages