Robert Haddick

A survey of current military capabilities in the South and East China Seas ( the "Near Seas") with a projection of future weapons and strategies. The author argues that the US military must quickly re-fit and adapt to meet the threat China poses to free navigation to sustain its primary mission of guaranteeing freeedom of the seas. Recommendations for refit focus on long-range strike aircraft, manned and not, and submarines.

Not exactly a page-turner, but readable with good footnotes and bibliography.… (mehr)