Rising Tides: Seapower and Regional Security in Northeast Asia

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Notes

¹ US Department of Defense, Quadrennial Defense Review Report (Washington DC, 6 Feb. 2006), 47.

² Jonathan Greenert, ‘Sea Change. The Navy Pivots to Asia’, Foreign Policy, 14 Nov. 2012, <www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/14/sea_change>, accessed on 25 March 2014.

³ US Department of Defense, Quadrennial Defense Review 2014 (Washington DC, 4 March 2014), 16–17.

⁴ Geoffrey Till, Asia’s Naval Expansion: An Arms Race in the Making? (London: Routledge for IISS 2012), 238–9.

⁵ Mahan’s core ideas are set forth in his best known work, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 (Boston: Little Brown 1890). For a comprehensive introduction to Mahan’s works, cf. Jon T. Sumida, Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1997).

⁶ Andrew Lambert, ‘Sea Power’, in George Kassimeris and John Buckley (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare (Farnham: Ashgate 2010), 73–87. For definitional clarifications on the adjectives ‘naval’ and ‘maritime’, see Ian Speller, ‘Naval Warfare’, in David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck and C. Dale Walton, Understanding Modern Warfare (Cambridge: CUP 2008), 125.

⁷ Geoffrey Till, ‘Introduction: Sea Power and the Rise and Fall of Empires’, in G. Till and Patrick C. Bratton (eds), Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific: The Triumph of Neptune? (Abingdon: Routledge 2011), 2.