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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Globalization and Sea Power: Overview and Context -- Part I-Globalization and the Security Environment -- Chapter 2-Characteristics and Requirements of the Evolving Security Environment -- Chapter 3-Geopolitics versus Globalization -- Chapter 4-Transnational Threats and Maritime Responses -- Chapter 5-Global Terrorism, Strategy, and Naval Forces -- Part II-Economic Issues and Maritime Strategy -- Chapter 6-Market Effects of Naval Presence in a Globalized World: A Research Summary -- Chapter 7-Globalization of Maritime Commerce: The Rise of Hub Ports -- Chapter 8-Sea Lane Security and U.S. Maritime Trade: Chokepoints as Scarce Resources -- Chapter 9-Economic and Strategic Implications of Ice-Free Arctic Seas -- Chapter 10-Asia's Energy Future: The Military-Market Link -- Chapter 11-The Globalization of the Defense Sector? Naval Industrial Cases and Issues -- Part III-International Politics and Maritime Alliances and Coalitions -- Chapter 12-The International Law of the Sea in a Globalized World -- Chapter 13-Beyond Integration: Globalization and Maritime Power from a European Perspective -- Chapter 14-Implications for Multinational Naval Doctrine -- Chapter 15-Naval Overseas Presence in the New U.S. Defense Strategy -- Part IV-Globalization and Naval Operations -- Chapter 16-From Effects-Based Operations to Effects-Based Deterrence: Military Planning and Concept Development -- Chapter 17-Globalization under the Sea -- Chapter 18-Globalization and Naval Aviation -- Chapter 19-Globalization and Surface Warfare -- Chapter 20-Mine Warfare and Globalization: Low-Tech Warfare in a High-Tech World -- Chapter 21-Expeditionary and Amphibious Warfare.

"This is the first book to examine the concept of anti-access and area denial warfare, providing a definitive introduction to both conceptual theories and historical examples of this strategy. Also referred to by the acronym "A2/AD," anti-access warfare has been identified in American strategic planning as the most likely strategy to be employed by the People's Republic of China or by the Islamic Republic of Iran in any future conflict with the United States. While previous studies of the subject have emphasized the effects on the joint force and, air forces in particular, this important new study advances the understanding of sea power by identifying the naval roots of the development of the anti-access concept. Rather than arguing against the reliance on maritime forces--presumably because they are no longer survivable--Tangredi maintains that history argues that maritime capabilities are key to countering anti-access operations. "--

A brief, clean-cutting compendium with six well known scholarly contribu- tors, Henriksen's volume illuminates the current cardinal directions in the debate over American foreign policy—unilateral versus multilateral interven- tionism along one axis, and aggressive promotion of democracy (or global markets) versus conservative harboring of national strength on the other. Be- hind this compass hides the more theo- retical discussion of whether the United States needs or could possibly maintain a grand strategy in the absence of an immediate national security threat.

Until the development of nuclear fission, no weapon of war had generated more public controversy than the submarine. Calls for its abolition and/or treaty restrictions on submarine operations and construction have been the staple of the 20th century disarmament movement. If this movement can be thought of as a coherent historical trend with its origin in The Hague Conferences of 1898 and 1907, its development has been a contemporary parallel to that of the submarine: from intellectual curiosity to a routine, powerful and exploitable political force.

Flash Points is both an elegant and a disturbing book. Not simply elegant in its writing style, which is direct and clear, but also in its initial discussion of the age of discovery and enlightenment that propelled the European nations into becoming world powers—you rarely find a more cogent and concise explanation of the roots of European social, cultural, political, and economic development.