Asia's naval expansion: An arms race in the making? (Adelphi series Book 432) by Geoffrey Till

Author:Geoffrey Till [Till, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Published: 2012-12-13T23:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 See Toshi Yoshihara and James R Holmes, ‘China’s New Undersea Deterrent: Strategy, Doctrine and Capability’, Joint Forces Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 3, Summer 2008, pp. 31–8; Srikanth Kondapalli, ‘The Chinese Threat in the Indian Ocean’, Rediff.com, 8 May 2008, http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/may/08guest.htm.

2 Toshi Yoshihara and James R Holmes, Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to US Maritime Strategy (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010), pp. 130–6.

3 United States Office of the Secretary of Defense Annual Report to Congress, Military Power of the People’s Republic of China, 2006, p. 28, quotes Major-General Zhu Chenghu to this effect; China’s National Defense in 2010, Information Office of the State Council, March 2011 at http://www.gov.cn/english/official/2011-03/31/content_1835499.htm, p. 4.

4 Yoshihara and Holmes, Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to US Maritime Strategy, pp. 146–8.

5 This argument and its possible naval results are authoritatively explored in Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, ‘Thinking About the Unthinkable: Tokyo’s Nuclear Option’, Naval War College Review, vol. 62, no. 3, Summer 2009, pp. 59–78. The authors conclude that such an outcome is ‘highly unlikely in the near future’, p. 74.

6 Ibid., p. 69.

7 For an account of this debate see Matake Kamiya, ‘Nuclear Japan: Oxymoron or Coming Soon?’, Washington Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, Winter 2002–03, pp. 63–75, and Yoshihara and Holmes, ‘Thinking About the Unthinkable: Tokyo’s Nuclear Option’, pp. 59–78.

8 James R. Holmes, Andrew C. Winner and Toshi Yoshihara, Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 96–105.

9 Indian Maritime Doctrine 2009, pp. 92–3.

10 Indian Maritime Doctrine 2004, p. 54.

11 Vijay Sakhuja, Asian Maritime Power in the 21st Century (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011), pp. 95–7, 290–91.

12 Interview, ‘Master and Commander’ Defense Technology International, June 2010.

13 US Navy, Naval Operations Concept 2010, pp. 74–6.

14 The Nuclear Posture Review is summarised and discussed in Richard L. Kugler, New Directions in US National Security Strategy, Defense Plans and Diplomacy – A Review of Official Strategic Documents (Washington DC: NDU Press for Institute for National Strategic Studies, 2011), pp. 69–72; see also ‘US Curbs Potential To Use Nuclear Weapons as Obama’s Radical Review Reverses Bush Policies’, Guardian, 7 April 2010.

15 Donald H. Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, Annual Report to the President and the Congress (Washington DC: US Department of Defense, 2002), p. 83.

16 For general background see Amy F. Woolf, US Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background Developments and Issues (Washington DC: Congressional Research Service Report RL 33640, 22 February 2012), especially pp. 15–22.

17 See John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, China’s Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994); See also Lyle J. Goldstein and Andrew S. Erickson, China’s Nuclear Force Modernization (Newport RI: Naval War College Press Newport Papers no. 22, 2005), http://www.usnwc.edu/Publications/Naval-War-College-Press/Newport-Papers/Documents/22-pdf.aspx.

18 Ronald O’Rourke, China Naval Modernization: Implications for US Navy Capabilities – Background and Issues for Congress (Washington DC: Congressional Research Service Report RL 33153, updated 10 July 2008), pp. 2–4. See also O’Rourke China Naval Modernization: Implications for US Navy Capabilities – Background and Issues for Congress, p.

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