Jan van Tol, with Mark Gunzinger, Andrew Krepinevich, and Jim Thomas, AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 18 May 2010).
The US military today faces an emerging major operational challenge, particularly in the Western Pacific Theater of Operations (WPTO). The Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) ongoing efforts to […]
Thomas J. Culora, “The Strategic Implications of Obscurants: History and the Future,” Naval War College Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 73-84.
Throughout history, smoke has been used in various forms to obscure naval forces at sea. During prominent naval battles in the twentieth century, from Jutland in World War I to the U.S. […]
Toshi Yoshihara, “Chinese Missile Strategy and the U.S. Naval Presence in Japan: The Operational View from Beijing,” Naval War College Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 39-62.
In recent years, defense analysts in the United States have substantially revised their estimates of China’s missile prowess. A decade ago, most observers rated Beijing’s ballistic missiles […]
Lyle J. Goldstein, Five Dragons Stirring Up the Sea: Challenge and Opportunity in China’s Improving Maritime Enforcement Capabilities, Naval War College China Maritime Study 5 (April 2010).
Today, China remains relatively weak in the crucially important middle domain of maritime power, that between commercial prowess and hard military power, which is concerned with maritime governance—enforcing a nation’s own laws […]
Ronald O’Rourke, “China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service, 23 December 2009.
The question of how the United States should respond to China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has emerged as a key issue in U.S. defense planning. The issue is of particular importance to the U.S. […]
Austin Long, Dinshaw Mistry, and Bruce M. Sugden, “Going Nowhere Fast: Assessing Concerns about Long-Range Conventional Ballistic Missiles,” Correspondence, International Security, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Spring 2010), pp. 166-84.
Austin Long is Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a member of Columbia’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Dinshaw Mistry […]
Øystein Tunsjø, “Hedging Against Oil Dependency: New Perspectives on China’s Energy Security Policy,” International Relations, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2010), pp. 25-45.
Analysts debate if China will address its increasing reliance on overseas oil supplies and associated vulnerabilities through strategic steps that could lead to conflict or through accommodating market mechanisms. This article utilises on traditional […]
Cdr. John Patch, U.S. Navy (Ret.), “A Thoroughbred Ship-Killer,” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Vol. 136, No. 4 (April 2010), pp. 48-53.
Small, fast, stealthy, and lethal, China’s new class of fast-attack craft receives little attention. Yet the hull represents a potential success story on how to field small combatants.
Even with its striking design and blue camouflage […]
Mark A. Stokes, “China’s Nuclear Warhead Storage and Handling System,” Project 2049 Institute, 12 March 2010.
This analysis uses original Chinese sources and Google Earth imagery to explore a previously understudied topic. It finds that China manages its nuclear warheads through a centralized storage and handling system with extensive security measures.
Richard Scott, “US Believes China is Poised to Field Ballistic Anti-Ship Missile,” International Defence Review, International Defence Digest, 2 March 2010, www.janes.com.
• Land-based DF-21D has potential to reach ranges of around 1,500 km
• Chinese ASBM could be used to engage manoeuvring ships at extended ranges …
One assessment from the US Naval War College’s China Maritime […]
Andrew S. Erickson and Lyle J. Goldstein, “China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force: Insights from Chinese Writings,” Naval War College Review 60.1 (Winter 2007): 54-79.
Cited in the following Wikipedia entries:
“Nuclear submarine”
“Submarines of the People’s Liberation Army Navy”
“Type 091 submarine”
“Type 092 submarine”
“Type 093 submarine”
“Type 095 submarine”
“Peng Pai”
Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, William S. Murray, and Andrew R. Wilson, eds., China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007).
Cited in the following Wikipedia entry: “Type 094 submarine”
Doug Richardson, “China’s New Jin-Class SSBN is ‘Relatively Noisy,’ According to US Intelligence,” Jane’s Missiles and Rockets, March 2010, pp. 6-7.
… China has been conducting advanced research into an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) programme since the 1990s … An article by Andrew S Erickson—a professor in the China Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval […]
Andrew F. Krepinevich, “Why AirSea Battle?,” Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 19 February 2010.
For well over half a century, the United States has been a global power with global interests. These interests include (but are not limited to) extending and defending democratic rule, maintaining access to key trading partners and resources, and […]
Frederik Ponjaert and Julien Béclard, “Public Research Projects in Europe and East Asia: Cooperation or Competition? A Comparative Analysis of the ITER and Galileo Experiences,” East Asia, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 99–125.
The projects discussed in this paper, Galileo and ITER, are two contrasting experiences of Euro-Asian cooperation within Very Large (Public) Scientific […]
Captain Sam J. Tangredi, U.S. Navy (Ret.), “No Game Changer for China,” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Vol. 136, No. 2 (February 2010), pp. 24-29.
“The specter of the Chinese antiship ballistic missile could be just that if the United States takes a serious look at updating existing technology and past successful programs. …
Even Andrew Erickson and […]
Nan Li and Christopher Weuve, “China’s Aircraft Carrier Ambitions: An Update,” Naval War College Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 12-31.
This article will address two major analytical questions. First, what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for China to acquire aircraft carriers? Second, what are the major implications if China does acquire aircraft […]
Major Kim Nødskov, Royal Danish Air Force (Ret.), The Return of China: The Long March to Power—The New Historic Mission of the People’s Liberation Army (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Defence College Publishing House, January 2010).
This book is an analysis of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the modernization it is going through. The […]
Abraham M. Denmark and James Mulvenon, eds., Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World (Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, 25 January 2010).
Contested Commons is an edited volume featuring five chapters and a capstone piece on the future of American power in the sea, air, space and cyberspace. Authors […]
Chinese Undersea Warfare: Development, Capabilities, Trends
Maritime Gray Zone Operations: Challenges and Countermeasures in the Indo-Pacific
Oxford Bibliography: “The People’s Liberation Army (PLA)”
China’s Climate Cooperation Smokescreen: A Roadmap for Seeing Through the Trap and Countering with Competition
Large-Scale Amphibious Warfare in Chinese Military Strategy
Rebalancing U.S. Forces: Basing and Forward Presence in the Asia-Pacific
China’s Near Seas Combat Capabilities
Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) Development: Drivers, Trajectories and Strategic Implications
Asia’s Rising Energy and Resource Nationalism: Implications for the United States, China, and the Asia-Pacific Region
Chinese Aerospace Power: Evolving Maritime Roles
China’s S-Curve Trajectory: Structural Factors Will Likely Slow the Growth of China’s Economy and Comprehensive National Power
China, the United States, and 21st-Century Sea Power: Defining a Maritime Security Partnership
China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective
China’s Energy Strategy: The Impact on Bejing’s Maritime Policies
China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force
Chinese Mine Warfare: A PLA Navy 'Assassin’s Mace' Capability
China’s Nuclear Force Modernization
