CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Epigraph

1. Crete

Part I. The Doctrine

2. Arlington, Virginia

3. The Pentagon

4. Capitol Hill

Part II. Into the Labyrinth

5. The Red Sea

6. The Gulf of Aden

7. The Strait of Hormuz

8. The United Arab Emirates

9. The Arabian Sea

Part III. IO

10. On the Hash Highway

11. The East Coast of Africa

12. The Indian Ocean

13. Male, the Maldive Islands

Part IV. On Station

14. Heading North

15. Tropic of Cancer

16. OpArea Endive

17. The Devil and the Sea

Part V. August 1914

18. Carrier Strike Group One: The Eastern Indian Ocean

19. The South China Sea

20. Off the China Coast

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by David Poyer

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