 | China's Rising Sea Power: The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge Subjects: Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Asian Politics; International Relations; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; History; Military & Naval History; Chinese Politics; War & Conflict Studies; Thisnbsp;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. Introductionnbsp; 1. China's Tactical Submarine Fleetnbsp; 2. The Geopolitical Contextnbsp; 3. China's New Maritime Strategynbsp; 4. Sea Control in the Western Pacificnbsp; 5. Maritime Strategic Theory and the Logic of China's Submarine Fleetnbsp; 6. Geography, Narrow Seas and Submarine Terrainnbsp; 7. Disputing U.S. Command of the China Seasnbsp; 8. The Universal and the Particular in Strategic Logicnbsp; 9. Influence of the Soviet Experience on the PRC's Maritime Strategynbsp; 10. Chinese Strategic Culture - Indigenous Elementsnbsp; 11. Chinese Strategic Culture, Submarines and Prospects for War in the Taiwan Straitnbsp; 12. Conclusionnbsp; |
