Andrew S. Erickson

William R. Hawkins, “Navy Nears Tipping Point as New Threats Rise,” Family Security Matters, 23 April 2010.
Last month, the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) published the disturbing study The Navy at a Tipping Point: Maritime Dominance at Stake? by Daniel Whiteneck, Michael Price, Neil Jenkins, and Peter Swartz. It warned that at its present size, […]

Wendell Minnick, “China Maritime Security Conference Set to Begin,” Defense News, 21 Apr 2010.
The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, R.I., will host a conference from May 4-5 entitled “Chinese and American Approaches to Non-Traditional Security Challenges: Implications for the Maritime Domain.”
Sponsored by the NWC’s China Maritime Studies Institute, the objective of the conference […]

Peter J. Brown, “China’s Navy Cruises into Pacific Ascendancy,” Asia Times, 22 April 2010.
…the role of space assets and space defense-related issues [has] slipped under the radar in large part thus far. What is unfolding overhead in support of any or all of the PLAN operations may be the most significant aspect of this recent […]

Andrew S. Erickson, “China Goes to Sea: Lessons from the Past,” Eight Bells Book Lecture, Naval War College Museum, 22 April 2010.

Lecture summarized in John W. Kennedy, “Is China Focusing on Seapower?” Newport Navalog 109.17 (30 April 2010), 3, 14.

Time: Thursday 22 April, 12 noon-1 pm
Location: 2nd Deck, Naval War College Museum, Newport, RI 02841-1207
Point […]

Andrew S. Erickson, “Chinese Defense Expenditures: Implications for Naval Modernization,” Jamestown China Brief 10.8 (16 April 2010): 11-15.
The extent and nature of Chinese defense spending can serve as the parameters for the future course of China’s military power and China’s intentions as it continues military modernization. Recent scholarship on China’s defense spending concludes that its military […]

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. […]

Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, and Carnes Lord, “China Sets Sail,” The American Interest 5.5 (Summer, May/June 2010): 27-34.
It’s not easy for a traditional land power to go to sea, but China is trying.
China has been undergoing an historic shift in emphasis from land to naval power. Is its maritime buildup a strategic necessity […]

Wendell Minnick, “Chinese Anti-ship Missile Could Alter U.S. Power,” Defense News, 5 April 2010, p. 6.
… Debate about the existence of a Chinese ASBM program was recently settled by U.S. Navy Adm. Robert Willard in March 23 testimony to Congress. The leader of U.S. Pacific Command told lawmakers that China is “developing and testing a […]

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 […]

Capt. Giles Van Nederveen, USAF (Ret.), review of 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) in Strategic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2010).
… This book, a collection of essays presented at a conference on […]

Greg Torode, “Beijing Testing ‘Carrier Killer,’ US Warns,” South China Morning Post, 3 April 2010.
… Admiral Robert Willard, the commander of the US Pacific Command, recently told US congressmen that China was both “developing and testing” [an ASBM]—the first formal comment from a senior US official that progress had advanced to the testing phase. …
Foreign […]

CMSI 2010 Conference
“Chinese and American Approaches to Non-Traditional Security Challenges: Implications for the Maritime Domain”
Naval War College, Pringle Auditorium
Newport, Rhode Island
May 4-5, 2010
The objective of this conference is derived from the October 2007 Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower goal to “Foster and sustain cooperative relationships with more international partners.” The fifth annual conference of […]

Cdr. Carla McCarthy, “Faculty Engage with Chinese Scholars and Navy at Peking University,” Naval War College Public Affairs Office, 1 April 2010.
NEWPORT, R.I. – Five Naval War College (NWC) faculty members recently attended a conference at Peking University in Beijing on the subject of maritime cooperation.
The event, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and held March […]

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 […]