Watching Hainan, Remembering Murmansk: Cold War Analogies, Maritime Access, and the Future of Warfare
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Grissom, Adam
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2011
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October 2011
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
Naval races have long been a harbinger of great-power competition. Just as Lysander built Sparta’s first battle fleet to challenge Athenian naval mastery in the Aegean, and Tirpitz built Germany’s Riskflotte to challenge British naval mastery in the North Sea, so today China is challenging American naval mastery in the Western Pacific. We are in the early stages of a classic naval race pitting a rising continental power against an established maritime power for control of the approaches to the Eurasian landmass.
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Article
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Strategic Insights, 2002-2010
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Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
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Strategic Insights, v.10, Special issue (October 2011)
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