China's Rising Sea Power: The Pla Navy's Submarine Challenge

by Peter Howarth

Book Overview

This is a fascinating insight into China's strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China's strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets challenged dominant maritime powers for regional hegemony: Germany in two World Wars and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Using insights from classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415495164
• ISBN13: 9780415495165
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"