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fleet ballistic missile, 57, 58;Kilo-class

Project 636M submarines, 75–76;

nuclear-powered, 57, 58, 76, 93, 103,

139

Suez Canal, 51, 66, 172

Sumatra, 47, 172

Sun Tzu, 150

Sunda Strait, 172, 202 n.34

Suzuki, Zenko, 152, 153, 157

Taft-Katsura Agreement, 52, 55

Taft, William Howard, 52

Taiwan: force structure trends, 1990–2006,

5; Four Wants and One Without, 109;

and global economy, 3;Kidd-class

destroyers, 6; territorial claims in South

China Sea, 172, 173; and trade, 66

Taiwan Strait, 23, 172

Taiwan Strait crisis (1996), 182

Takaaki, Kato [accent], 34

tanker war, between Iran and Iraq, 66

Tattnall, Josiah, 48–49

territorial sea, 64

Thailand, 62, 114, 159, 160, 176, 177,

179, 180

theory of sea power, 205 n.12

Third Fleet, 63, 64

Tiananmen arms embargo, 82

Till, Geoffrey, 7, 8

total allowable catch (TAC), 175

treasure ships, 30

Treaty of Tientsin, 49

Treaty on Amity and Cooperation, 177

Turk, Richard, 150

Twenty-one Demands, 53

UAV (unmanned-aerial-vehicle) transport,

84–85

UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of

the Sea), 64–65, 68

UNCTAD (UN Convention on the Trade

and Development), 3

undersea warfare, 77

United States: antisubmarine warfare, 57,

60; expenditure on battleships in

interwar era, 207 n.42; merchant

marine, 58; need for more coherentnaval

strategy, 167; oil imports, 66; rise as

Pacific power, 50–51; SLOCs, 64, 65–

66, 67, 68–69.See alsoU.S. maritime

strategy in Asia

U.S. Department of Defense, international

regions designated by, 65–66

U.S.-Japan defense treaty (1952), 155

U.S.-Japan maritime alliance, 63

U.S.-Japan security treaty (1960), Far East

clause, 156

U.S. Lifelines and Transit Regions,

65–66

U.S. Marine Corps, 57, 166

U.S. maritime strategy in Asia: arms

limitation, 53–55; Cold War and, 56–

59; during interwar period, 53–55; early

encounters, 47–49; economic dimension

in 21st century, 65–67; legal dimension

in 21st century, 64–65; National

Security Strategy, 59; operations, 51–53;

post–9/11 period, 60–62; post–Cold

War, 1990s, 59–60;Sea Basing,60;Sea

Power 21,60;Sea Shield,60;Sea Strike,

60; strategic elements in 21st century,

63–64; swing strategy, 58–59; twenty-

first century, 62–67; World War II,

55–56

U.S. Navy: budget cuts, 67; in nineteenth

century, 48–49.See alsoU.S. maritime

strategy in Asia

U.S.-Soviet de ́tente, 157

USNSBowditch, 65

USNSKitty Hawk,72–73

USSAshuelot, 49

USSJohn C. Stennis, 180

Valencia, Mark, 179

Van Dyke, Jon M., 179

Versailles Treaty, 53

very large crude carriers (VLCC), 113, 117,

119–21, 122, 123

Vietnam, 30, 171, 176; claims in South

China Sea, 172, 173, 175

Visiting Forces Agreement, 180

von Tirpitz, Alfred, 151

Wang Zhiyuan, 91

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