Can Carrying a ‘Small-Stick’ Win America the South China Sea?
A recent action off the Phillipines has all eyes on China's rising naval prowess. But non-naval services also support Beijing's maritime strategy.
James Holmes is an associate professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College, where Toshi Yoshihara holds the John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies. They are the coauthors of Red Star over the Pacific, an Atlantic Best Book of 2010. The views voiced here are theirs alone.
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