This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets challenged dominant maritime powers for regional hegemony: Germany in two World Wars and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Using insights from classical naval strategic theory, Peter Howarth examines Beijing’s strategic logic in making tactical submarines the keystone of China’s naval force structure. He also investigates the influence of Soviet naval strategy and ancient Chinese military thought on the PLA Navy’s strategic culture, contending that China’s increasingly capable submarine fleet could play a key role in Beijing’s use of force to resolve the Taiwan issue. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of security and strategic studies, Asian politics, geopolitics and military (naval) strategy.
Author(s): Peter Howarth
Edition: annotated edition
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 208
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
DEDICATIONS......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
1. CHINA’S TACTICAL SUBMARINE FLEET......Page 26
2. THE GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT......Page 32
3. CHINA’S NEW MARITIME STRATEGY......Page 52
4. SEA CONTROL IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC......Page 68
5. MARITIME STRATEGIC THEORY AND THE LOGIC OF CHINA’S SUBMARINE FLEET......Page 79
6. GEOGRAPHY, NARROW SEAS AND SUBMARINE TERRAIN......Page 97
7. DISPUTING US COMMAND OF THE CHINA SEAS......Page 107
8. THE UNIVERSAL AND THE PARTICULAR IN STRATEGIC LOGIC......Page 124
9. INFLUENCE OF THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE ON THE PRC’S MARITIME STRATEGY......Page 128
10. CHINESE STRATEGIC CULTURE - INDIGENOUS ELEMENTS......Page 143
11. CHINESE STRATEGIC CULTURE - SUBMARINES AND PROSPECTS FOR WAR IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT......Page 160
CONCLUSION......Page 178
NOTES......Page 189
REFERENCES......Page 192
INDEX......Page 205
