Chinese naval shipbuilding : an ambitious and uncertain course / edited by Andrew S. Erickson

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Studies in Chinese maritime developmentPublication details: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 2016Description: xiii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781682470817
  • 1682470814
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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.

"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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