TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erickson,Andrew S.
TI  - Chinese naval shipbuilding: an ambitious and uncertain course 
SN  - 9781682470817
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Annapolis, MD
PB  - Naval Institute Press
KW  - shipbuilding
KW  - industry
KW  - warships
KW  - navy
KW  - naval forces
KW  - naval warfare
KW  - naval strategy
KW  - submarines
KW  - arms industry
KW  - China
N1  - SIP1702; Joint publication of the China Maritime Studies Institute and the Naval Institute Press; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: China's military shipbuilding industry steams ahead, on what course? / Andrew S. Erickson -- Part I: Foundation and resources -- Warfare drivers: mission needs and the impact on ship design / Christopher P. Carlson and Jack Bianchi -- Status, goals, prospects: party-state strategic requirements for China's shipbuilding industry / Morgan Clemens and Ian Easton -- Resources for China's state shipbuilders: now including global capital markets / Gabe Collins and Eric Anderson -- Part II: Shipyard infrastructure -- Key factors in Chinese shipyards' development and performance: commercial-military synergy and divergence / Sue Hall and Audrye Wong -- China's naval strength: current and future / Alex Pape and Tate Nurkin -- Monitoring Chinese shipbuilding facilities with satellite imagery / Sean O'Connor and Jordan Wilson -- Civil-military integration potential in Chinese shipbuilding / Daniel Alderman and Rush Doshi -- Part III: Naval architecture and design -- PLAN Warship construction and standardization / Mark Metcalf -- China's military shipbuilding research, development, and acquisition system / Kevin Pollpeter and Mark Stokes -- China's civilian shipbuilding in competitive context: an Asian industrial perspective / Julian Snelder -- Part IV: Remaining shipbuilding challenges -- PLA shipboard electronics: impeding China's naval modernization / Leigh Ann Ragland-Luce and John Costello -- Underpowered: Chinese conventional and nuclear naval power and propulsion / Andrew S. Erickson, Jonathan Ray, and Robert T. Forte -- China's aircraft carrier program: drivers, developments, implications / Andrew Scobell, Michael E. McMahon, Cortez A. Cooper III, and Arthur Chan -- Part V: Conclusions and alternative futures -- Maximal scenario: expansive naval trajectory to "China's naval dream" / James E. Fanell and Scott Cheney-Peters -- Medium scenario: world's second "far seas" navy by 2020 / Michael McDevitt -- Technological "wild cards" and twenty-first-century naval warfare / Paul Scharrem and Tyler Jost -- How China's shipbuilding output might affect requirements for U.S. Navy capabilities / Ronald O'Rourke
N2  - "This book furthers discussion of a topic that is inadequately addressed but of paramount importance to the U.S. Navy, and of great interest to Naval Institute members: what quality and quantity of ships can China supply its navy with, today and over the next fifteen years?"--Provided by publisher
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