Andrew S. Erickson

Greg Torode, “PLA’s First Carrier ‘Ready by 2012’: Blue-Water Navy Plans Advancing, U.S. Says,” South China Morning Post, 1 April 2010.
China could have its first aircraft carrier operational in two years, according to the most senior US military official in the Asia-Pacific region.
Admiral Robert Willard, commander of the US Pacific Command in Hawaii, told a […]

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 […]

Proceedings Editor-in-Chief Paul Merzlak explains on his Editor’s Page:
“So, how to look at China, and what does it all mean? The China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College attempts to help us answer that question. Long-time Naval Institute contributors Andrew Erickson and Lyle Goldstein led their team in putting together a package […]

Andrew S. Erickson, “Eyes in the Sky,” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 136.4 (April 2010): 36-41.
With 15 new satellites launched in 2008 alone and an ambitious program to produce more space-based surveillance technology, China is increasing its ability to monitor its near seas with deadly precision.
China is developing increasingly capable naval platforms, aircraft, and missiles that could […]

Andrew Erickson, “China Testing Ballistic Missile ‘Carrier-Killer’,” Danger Room, Wired.com, March 29, 2010.
Last week, Adm. Robert Willard, the head of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), made an alarming, but little-noticed disclosure. China, he told legislators, was “developing and testing a conventional anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21/CSS-5 [medium-range ballistic missile] designed specifically to target aircraft […]

“‘The Motherlode’ on Chinese ASBM Development,” Facing China, 29 March 2010.
…The part [of Admiral Willard’s testimony] that was so provocative to China ASBM-watchers was the use of the word “testing.”  Dr. Andrew S. Erickson, Associate Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College and a founding member of the department’s China Maritime […]

Isaac Stone Fish, “Rousing China To Military Dominance,” Wealth of Nations Blog, Newsweek, 19 March 2010.
…certain members of China’s military are publicly starting to itch for a more assertive role in international affairs. The latest hawkish call to arms is from Ling Mingfu, a senior colonel and professor at China’s National Defense University, whose new […]

Andrew S. Erickson and Gabriel B. Collins, “China’s Oil Security Pipe Dream: The Reality, and Strategic Consequences, of Seaborne Imports,” Naval War College Review 63.2 (Spring 2010): 88–111.
This article was required reading for the Naval War College National Security Decision Making Department’s Strategy and Theater Security course.
It is widely believed in China that overland pipelines would […]

Andrew S. Erickson, review of 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, 63.2 (Spring 2010): 145-47.
This book connects China’s past, present, and future and places them in a larger, evolving context. Horner’s work is nothing […]

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.

“China’s Two-Level Navy: Bifurcated Development to Secure Specific Territorial Claims and Expansive Commerce,” presented at “China and East Asia Strategic Dynamics,” conference, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 12 March 2010.

Richard Desjardins, Canadian civil servant; review of Gabriel B. Collins, Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, and William S. Murray, eds., China’s Energy Strategy: The Impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008); Joint Force Quarterly, issue 57, second quarter 2010, pp. 132-33.
“The China Maritime Studies Institute… is fast becoming a center […]

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 […]

Summary of Andrew S. Erickson *06, Lyle J. Goldstein *02, and Carnes Lord, China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009), Princeton Alumni Weekly, 23 February 2010.

This book assesses China’s potential as a genuine maritime power, placing it in a world historical context next to cases of […]

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 […]