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Index
Cover
Praise Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: “China's Existential Challenge to the World”
Prologue
PART 1: THE BEST OR WORST OF INTENTIONS?
1. The Thucydides Trap Meets the “Security Dilemma”
2. China's Century of Humiliation and Its Homeland-Protection Imperative
3. Escaping a “Malacca Dilemma” and Guarding Trade Routes
4. America's Once and Future Embargo?
5. A “Revisionist” or “Status Quo” Power?
PART 2: ASSESSING CAPABILITIES
6. Some Sobering Military-Budget Math
7. The Ghost of Admiral Liu Huaqing Haunting Asia
8. The Game-Changing Aircraft-Carrier Killer
9. The Underground Great Wall of China
10. The Missiles “R” Us of the World
11. Any Ship Can Be a Minesweeper—Once
12. Nukes at Sea and Sleepless in Seattle
13. Chinese Subs Lay in Wait—With Europe's Complicity
14. Down to the Sea in Surface Ships
15. The Best Air Force Spies Can Steal
16. Deny, Degrade, Deceive, Disrupt, and Destroy in Space
17. The Internet Meets Mephistopheles
18. The Dark Strategic Beauty of the Nonkinetic Three Warfares
19. The Sum of All Chinese Capabilities
PART 3: TRIGGERS, TRIP WIRES, AND FLASH POINTS
20. The (Almost) Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier of Taiwan
21. The Wild Child and Wild Card of North Korea
22. On the Rocks in the East China Sea
23. A Paracel Islands Prelude to the Next Vietnam War
24. A Hungry Cow's Tongue in the South China Sea
25. China's New Monroe Doctrine for Asia
26. Bye, Bye to Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai
27. An Imploding China Wags the Dog
28. Madison's “Mischief of Factions” with Chinese Characteristics
29. The Emerging China-Russia Threat Vector
PART 4: SURVEYING THE BATTLEFIELD
30. When Quantity Has a Quality of Its Own
31. The Forward Base as a Soft, Fixed Target
32. The Ongoing Battle over Air-Sea Battle
33. A Net Assessment of Offshore Control
34. What Might “Victory” Look Like?
PART 5: PATHWAYS TO PEACE THAT (PROBABLY) WON'T WORK
35. Should America Beat a Neoisolationist Retreat?
36. Will Economic Engagement Keep the Peace?
37. Will Economic Interdependence Prevent War?
38. Will Nuclear Weapons Deter Conventional War?
39. Can We Negotiate Our Way out of the Thucydides Trap?
40. Is a “Grand Bargain” with China Feasible?
PART 6: PATHWAYS TO PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH
41. The Logic and Architecture of Peace through Strength
42. On the Primacy of Peace through Economic Strength
43. Toward a New Strategy for Peace through Military Strength
44. Pivot Softly and Carry a Firm Alliance Stick
45. Defeating the Enemy That Is Us
Notes
Index
Map
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