Mayday
Subtitle: the decline of American Naval supremacy
By: Seth Cropsey
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781468308280
Subjects: History; Sjökrigsväsen; United States. Navy; United States
Description: As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy has been the key to America's rise to superpower status and the relative peace of the postwar era. Over the past two decades, however, while Washington has been preoccupied with land wars in the Middle East and targeted drone-centric operations against emerging terrorist threats, the United States Navy's combat fleet has dwindled to historic lows--the smallest since before World War I. At the same time, rival nations such as China have increased the size of their navies significantly and at an extraordinary rate. Within a matter of years or even months, China will likely have the ability to deny or substantially curtail the U.S. Navy's ability to operate in the Pacific and to project power in Asia, which could have drastic consequences for the world economy. --
Notes: This edition originally published: New York : The Overlook Press, 2014.

"Featuring a new afterword"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: American seapower in distress; title: Alfred Thayer Mahan : seapower as an instrument of democratic expansion; title: The roots of American seapower; title: The future of American seapower; title: America adrift; title: China and the coming threats to dominance; title: What is lost can never be regained; title: Can America still manufacture its own weapons?; title: To be a great power or not; title: Changing American maritime strategy.