Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS xi
5. CONTRIBUTORS xv
6. PART I. THE CONCEPT OF COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES
7. 1. Thinking about Competitive Strategies 3
8. 2. Competitive Strategies: Theoretical Foundations, Limits, and Extensions 12
9. 3. Strategic Interaction: Theory and History for Practitioners 28
10. 4. Barriers to Acting Strategically: Why Strategy Is So Difficult 47
11. PART II. THE PRACTICE OF COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES
12. 5. U.S. Competitive Strategy during the Cold War 71
13. 6. Overview of the Competitive Strategies Initiative 90
14. 7. Soviet Military Thought and the U.S. Competitive Strategies Initiative 106
15. PART III. THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA: TOWARD STRATEGIC COMPETITION?
16. 8. The State of the U.S.-China Competition 131
17. 9. China’s Approach to Strategy and Long-Term Competition 147
18. 10. The Power Projection Balance in Asia 168
19. 11. Assessing the Undersea Balance between the United States and China 184
20. 12. A Competitive Strategy with Chinese Characteristics? The Second Artillery’s Growing Conventional Forces and Missions 206
21. 13. Japan’s Competitive Strategies at Sea: A Preliminary Assessment 219
22. 14. Strategic Competition in the Western Pacific: An Australian Perspective 236
23. PART IV. ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR THE COMPETITION
24. 15. Developing a Strategy for a Long-Term Sino-American Competition 257
25. 16. China’s Maritime Salient: Competitive Strategies on the Oceanic Front for the 21st Century 275
26. 17. Cultural Barriers to Implementing a Competitive Strategy 289
27. CONCLUSION 301
28. INDEX 307