Charles Horner, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009), Naval War College Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 145-47.
This book connects China’s past, present, and future and places them in a larger, evolving context. Horner’s work is nothing short [...]
Boris Chertok, Rockets and People: Creating a Rocket Industry, Vols. 1 and 2 (Washington, DC: NASA, 2005), Air & Space Power Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall 2009), pp. 124-25.
In this initial two-volume set, Boris Chertok chronicles Soviet air and space development through approximately 1960, drawing on his six decades of experience as one of [...]
Roger Cliff et al., Entering the Dragon’s Lair: Chinese Antiaccess Strategies and Their Implications for the United States (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2007), Naval War College Review, forthcoming Vol. 62, No. 1, Winter 2009, pp. 150-51.
The authors have produced the first major study that evaluates comprehensively the specific antiaccess methods being discussed by Chinese military [...]
Roy Kamphausen and Andrew Scobell, eds., Right-Sizing the People’s Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China’s Military (Carlisle, PA: Army War College, 2007), Naval War College Review, Vol. 61, No. 4, Autumn 2008, pp. 152-53.
This edited volume combines high-level inquiry into the larger purposes and dimensions of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reforms with fresh data [...]
Ronald O’Rourke, The Impact of Chinese Naval Modernization and the Future of the United States Navy (New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2006), Naval War College Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, Winter 2008, pp. 130-31.
Well written, succinct, and timely, this balanced assessment of Chinese naval weaknesses and strengths offers specific technological development and procurement alternatives [...]
Andrew Erickson, “A Coming Confrontation With the U.S. Over Taiwan?,” John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006), Naval War College Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, Autumn 2007, pp. 139-40.
This sophisticated Chinese-language research, based on numerous original sources and interviews, completes Lewis and [...]
Andrew S. Erickson, “An Accessible Window into Chinese Military Thought,” Peng Guangqian and Yao Youzhi, eds., The Science of Military Strategy (Beijing: Military Science Press, 2005), Naval War College Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, Summer 2007, pp. 133-34.
This first English-language volume on strategy by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was translated by a team of [...]
Euan Graham, Japan’s Sea Lane Security, 1940-2004: A Matter of Life and Death? (New York: Routledge, 2006), Naval War College Review, Vol. 60, No. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 153-54.
As the first English-language analysis of its kind, Graham’s comprehensive case study fills a critical gap in the literature concerning the maritime dimension of Japanese national security. [...]
Paul J. Bolt and Albert S. Willner, eds., China’s Nuclear Future (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2006), The China Journal, No. 57 (January 2007), pp. 241-43.
This edited volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, assesses China’s strategic force modernization and suggests that Beijing is in the process of adapting its nuclear posture to [...]
