The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition: Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

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James J. Wirtz (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA) Jeffrey E. Kline (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA)

The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition

Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

James J. Wirtz (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA), Jeffrey E. Kline (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA), James A. Russell (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA)

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Routledge
22 December 2023

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Military history; Politics & government; Warfare & defence

Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs.

A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy operations in the Western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and its new anti-access and area-denial capabilities threaten the aircraft carrier-based maritime dominance of the U.S. Navy. Military and political trends in the Western Pacific and beyond suggest that the world is encountering a pivotal moment when existing weapons, tactics, and operations might be rendered obsolete by techno-strategic change. This volume considers these developments from three perspectives by describing: (1) the techno-strategic setting; (2) the institutional constraints that impede the ability of the U.S. Navy to respond to these changes; and (3) a new approach to naval force planning and strategy to cope with these developments. The volume culminates in a discussion of sophisticated strategies and operational concepts that position the U.S. Navy and its maritime allies and partners to prevail in today’s techno-strategic churn.

This book will be of much interest to students of naval policy, strategic studies, Asia-Pacific politics, and International Relations.

By: James J. Wirtz (Naval Postgraduate School Monterey USA), Jeffrey E. Kline (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA), James A. Russell (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032480619
ISBN 10: 1032480610
Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. Great Power Competition: Challenges for the U.S. Navy Part I: The Changing Techno-Strategic Setting 1. A Maritime Conversation with America 2. Innovation for Seapower: U.S. Navy Strategy in an age of Acceleration 3. Imagining Maritime Conflict in the Indo-Pacific: Can Analogies Substitute for Strategy? Part II: The U.S. Navy: Institutional Constraints 4. Innovation and Navy-Time 5. Long-Term Navy Strategy: Meeting the Techno-Strategic Challenge 6. Twenty –First-Century Innovation Pathways for the U.S. Navy in the Age of Competition Part III: Toward a U.S. Navy Strategy 7. Impacts of the Robotics Age on Naval Force Design, Effectiveness, and Acquisition 8. The ‘Bi-Modal’ Force Design Revisited 9. Indications & Warning Intelligence for the Western Pacific 10. The United States Navy and Integrated Deterrence Conclusion. A Strategy for the Long Term

James J. Wirtz is Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. He is co-author of War, Peace and International Relations 3rd edition (2024) and co-editor of Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies, 6th edition (2023). Captain Jeffrey E. Kline, USN (ret.) is a Professor of Practice at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. In 2019, he was awarded the J. Steinhardt Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Military Operations Research. James A. Russell is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. He is co-editor of Maritime Strategy and Naval Innovation (2021) and co-editor of The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific (2023).