Red Star Over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to the US Maritime Strategy Charles Henderson Tactical Trauma Assessment

Tactical Trauma Assessment

It would be a war of retribution

Packed with incredible anecdotes and startling statistics

instill fear in enemy hearts

and sacrifice: a parable not only of the war in Vietnam but of all war

Red Star Over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to the US Maritime Strategy Charles Henderson Tactical Trauma AssessmentCombining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea power theory, the authors assess how the rise of Chinese sea power will affect U. S. maritime strategy in Asia. They argue that China has laid the groundwork for a sustained challenge to American primacy in maritime Asia, and to defend this hypothesis they look back to Alfred Thayer Mahan's sea power theories, now