How the U.S. Lost the Naval War of 2015.

AuthorSempa, Francis P.

How the U.S. Lost the Naval War of 2015

By James Kraska, Marine Policy Center

http://www.fpri.org/orbis/5401/kraska.navalwar2015.pdf

Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor

In the current issue of Orbis, James Kraska, a former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, describes a frightening future scenario in which China sinks a U.S. aircraft carrier (the USS George Washington) on routine patrol in the East China Sea, killing 4,000 sailors and airmen, and resulting in "a new epoch of international order in which Beijing emerge[s] to displace the United States."

In the article, Kraska is writing in the presumed aftermath of the Chinese attack in 2015. He recounts two decades of warning signs that went unheeded by the United States, including a vastly improved Chinese Navy which developed asymmetric weapons of the future (such as anti-ship ballistic missiles) and a significantly reduced and thinly-spread U.S. Navy that focused on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and counter-piracy operations and neglected its primary role of providing maritime supremacy.

Kraska describes the successful Chinese attack as our greatest defeat at sea since Pearl...

To continue reading

Request your trial

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT