Asia Looks Seaward
The IN has faced three significant challenges since its founding that have constrained its ability to reach its full potential a ...
In addition to absolute deficits in available resources, the IN has traditionally been the most sparsely funded of the three arm ...
Even today, though, India remains worried about the quality of supplies deliv- ered by the Russian military–industrial complex.^ ...
As is fairly typical in Indian strategic discourse, a retired senior officer has dropped additional hints at the direction of In ...
from their torpedo tubes. It is unclear, however, whether either missile is suitable for delivering nuclear payloads: their rang ...
soil, the navy could accept ballistic missiles with shorter ranges—that is, missiles that are less challenging to develop and bu ...
first quarter of the 21st century must look at the arc from the Persian Gulf to the Straits of Malacca as a legitimate area of i ...
recently issued a tender for eight maritime reconnaissance aircraft to replace the navy’s aging TU-142s. Indian officials turned ...
Again, this is more a political than an operational issue. But it does portend some difficulties India could face if it decides ...
will further enhance its ability to conduct such operations. Most recently, the U.S. government agreed to sell India the retired ...
powers from operating in that area. In today’s security parlance, forward presence is a necessary part of ‘‘shaping’’ the intern ...
greater opportunity for maneuver and influence. Indian foreign policy these days is marked by real and growing preparedness to u ...
CHAPTER 8 JAPANESE MARITIME THOUGHT: IF NOT MAHAN,WHO? James R. Holmes The late Colonel John Boyd, who knew a thing or two about ...
Japanese and U.S. naval circles rather than supplying answers that are likely to be premature. Japan, Geography, and Maritime St ...
half-island appended to Eurasia, thrusts out toward the Japanese archipelago like the proverbial ‘‘dagger aimed at the heart of ...
pillars’’ of overseas commerce, naval and merchant fleets, and naval bases arrayed along the sea lanes to support fuel-thirsty w ...
The Influence of Mahan upon Japan Scholars agree that Japanese strategists leapt at Mahan’s theories. Mahan recalled that his wo ...
actions....While they invoked his ideas and used his language in the wake of the Sino-Japanese War to justify fleet expansion, i ...
Imperial Japan’s Quasi-Mahanian Naval Strategy As it took shape, then, Japanese naval strategy bore only partial resemblance to ...
IJN thinkers recognized that Japan was a regional power with limited resources, whereas Mahan had derived his theories from the ...
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