The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition: Looking Beyond the Western Pacific [Paperback]

Introduction.?Great Power Competition: Challenges for the U.S. Navy??Part I: The Changing Techno-Strategic Setting??1.?A Maritime Conversation with America? 2.?Innovation for Seapower: U.S. Navy Strategy in an age of Acceleration? 3.?Imagining Maritime Conflict in the Indo-Pacific: Can Analogies Substitute for Strategy???Part II: The U.S. Navy: Institutional Constraints??4.?Innovation and Navy-Time? 5.?Long-Term Navy Strategy: Meeting the Techno-Strategic Challenge? 6.?Twenty First-Century Innovation Pathways for the U.S. Navy in the Age of Competition??Part III: Toward a U.S. Navy Strategy??7.?Impacts of the Robotics Age on Naval Force Design, Effectiveness, and Acquisition? 8.?The Bi-Modal Force Design Revisited? 9.?Indications & Warning Intelligence for the Western Pacific? 10.?The United States Navy and Integrated Deterrence? Conclusion.?A Strategy for the Long Term

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs.

A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy operations in the Western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and its new anti-access and area-denial capabilities threaten the aircraft carrier-based maritime dominance of the U.S. Navy. Military and political trends in the Western Pacific and beyond suggest that the world is encountering a pivotal moment when existing weapons, tactics, and operations might be rendered obsolete by techno-strategic change. This volume considers these developments from three perspectives by describing: (1) the techno-strategic setting; (2) the institutional constraints that impede the ability of the U.S. Navy to respond to these changes; and (3) a new approach to naval force planning and strategy tl£”