Mayday : the decline of American naval supremacy /

In this alarming defense of American seapower, Navy insider Seth Cropsey blows the whistle on America's weakening naval might in the twenty-first century. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy has been the key to America's rise to superpower status and the r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cropsey, Seth
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2013.
Subjects:	United States. > Navy > History > 20th century. United States. > Navy > History > 21st century. United States > History, Naval > 20th century. United States > History, Naval > 21st century. Sea-power > History > 21st century. Naval strategy > History > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

American seapower in distress
Alfred Thayer Mahan: seapower as an instrument of democratic expansion
The roots of American seapower
The future of American seapower
America adrift
China and the coming threats to dominance
What is lost can never be regained
Can America still manufacture its own weapons?
To be a great power, or not
Changing American maritime strategy.