Publisher's Synopsis
There are numerous international tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, many of which are intensifying, and several of which have taken on a new character since the end of the Cold War. This work, by a leading authority of maritime strategy, considers the importance and use of navies in this most maritime of regions. In the book, Grove examines:
* sea power and maritime strategy at the dawn of the twenty-first century
* the use of the sea as an economic and as a miliary medium
* the evolving shape of maritime operations
* tthe regional politico-legal-economic environment
* the functions of regional navies
* the implications for regional naval development.
