Red Star Over the Pacific, Third Edition (3rd ed.)

The third edition of Red Star over the Pacific explores how China's growing sea power—shaped by both Western and Chinese strategic thought—threatens U.S. maritime dominance in Asia and demands urgent adaptation by American sea services. In this third edition of Red Star over the Pacific, authors Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes assess how the rise of Chinese sea power challenges American primacy in maritime Asia. Drawing on Alfred Thayer Mahan's sea-power theories, now popular with Chinese pr