1st Edition

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

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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).