Strategy in Asia The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security [Hardcover]

Some of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If America is to meet these challenges comprehensively, strategists will have to learn more about Asia, and Asian scholars, policymakers, and analysts will need to understand better the enduring and timeless principles of strategy.

Based on the premise therefore that the increasing strategic weight of the Asia-Pacific region warrants greater attention from both scholars and practitioners alike,Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Securityaims to marry the fields of strategic studies and Asian studies in order to help academics and practitioners to begin addressing these challenges. The book uses the lenses of geography, culture, and economics to examine in depth the strategic context that Asia presents to the major nations of the regionincluding the U.S. as a Pacific nationand the strategic scenarios that may well play out in the region in the near future. Specific attention is paid to Asia as a warfighting environment, and to the warfighting traditions and current postures of the major nations.

The volume is a great introductory primer for those interested in applying strategic studies to the Asian context...Comprised of 14 chapters and 6 maps, the volume opens windows into the key lenses of strategic studies namely, history, geography and politics, and secondarily, culture and economics. In an effort to facilitate American policy making in the region, Mahnken and Blumenthal provide an in-depth strategic overview of the Asia-Pacific. They explore the region from a geographical, cultural and economic perspective, predicting the key developments likely to impact its near future. . This is a uniquely successful exploration of East Asia through the duallS%