Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia
This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-east Asia and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region.
The rise of naval capability in the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region is increasingly recognised as a major indicator of the rise of Asia and its increasing importance in the worlds political, economic and strategic future. Most coverage focusses solely on the navies of the big four the US, China, India and Japan; however, the regions other navies, though much smaller, are significant too. Given the current focus on the South China Sea and the Obama administrations pivot to Asia, naval development in South-east Asia is of particular relevance.
This book first identifies the issues involved in defence acquisition in this area. It then goes on to establish some templates of naval modernisation as a means of assessing the policies of individual countries in the region, by looking at the naval policies of the big four. Finally, the general issue of naval modernisation in South-east Asia is illustrated through a more detailed examination of some of the major issues common to all countries of the area. These include the defence-industrial perspective, specific examinations of submarine and surface ship acquisition processes, and a review of the balance to be struck between naval and coastguard forces in the area.
This book will be of much interest to students of naval power, maritime security, South-east Asian politics, strategic studies, and IR in general.
Geoffrey Till was formerly Dean of Academic Studies at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College, and is currently Professor of Maritime Studies in the Defence Studies Department and Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy, Kings College London, at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. He is author of a number of books including Seapower (Routledge, 2004, 2009, 2013), Air Power and the Royal Navy, Maritime Strategy and the Nuclear Age, and The Development of British Naval Thinking (Routledge). Jane Chan is a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
Series Editor: Geoffrey Till
ISSN 13669478
This series consists primarily of original manuscripts by research scholars in the general area of naval policy and history, without national or chronological limitations. It will from time to time also include collections of important articles as well as reprints of classic works.
1 Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 19041914
Milan N. Vego
2 Far-Flung Lines
Studies in imperial defence in honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman
Edited by Keith Neilson and Greg Kennedy
3 Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars
Rear Admiral Raja Menon
4 The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 19421947
Chris Madsen
5 Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas
Milan N. Vego
6 The Pen and Ink Sailor
Charles Middleton and the Kings Navy, 17781813
John E. Talbott
7 The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 19351940
Robert Mallett
8 The Merchant Marine and International Affairs, 18501950
Edited by Greg Kennedy
9 Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia
Geo-strategic goals, policies and prospects
Duk-Ki Kim
10 Naval Policy and Strategy in the Mediterranean Sea
Past, present and future
Edited by John B. Hattendorf
11 Stalins Ocean-going Fleet
Soviet naval strategy and shipbuilding programmes, 19351953
Jrgen Rohwer and Mikhail S. Monakov
12 Imperial Defence, 18681887
Donald Mackenzie Schurman; edited by John Beeler
13 Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Edited by Phillips Payson OBrien
14 The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons
Richard Moore
15 The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period
An operational perspective
Joseph Moretz
16 Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power
Thomas M. Kane
17 Britains Anti-submarine Capability, 19191939
George Franklin
18 Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 19191939
Grand strategy and failure
Donald Stoker
19 Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century
An international perspective
Edited by Christopher Bell and Bruce Elleman
20 The Road to Oran
Anglo-French naval relations, September 1939July 1940
David Brown
21 The Secret War against Sweden
US and British submarine deception and political control in the 1980s
Ola Tunander
22 Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 19191939
Planning for a war against Japan
Andrew Field
23 Seapower
A guide for the twenty-first century
Geoffrey Till
24 Britains Economic Blockade of Germany, 19141919
Eric W. Osborne
25 A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham
A twentieth-century naval leader
Michael Simpson
26 Navies in Northern Waters, 17212000
Edited by Rolf Hobson and Tom Kristiansen
27 German Naval Strategy, 18561888
Forerunners to Tirpitz
David Olivier
28 British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 19002000
Influences and actions
Edited by Greg Kennedy
29 The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic, 19211940
Gunnar Aselius
30 The Royal Navy, 19301990
Innovation and defence
Edited by Richard Harding
31 The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Ian Speller
32 Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
The question of fire control
John Brooks
33 Greek Naval Strategy and Policy, 19101919
Zisis Fotakis
34 Naval Blockades and Seapower
Strategies and counter-strategies, 18052005
Edited by Bruce A. Elleman and Sarah C.M. Paine
35 The Pacific Campaign in World War II
From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
William Bruce Johnson
36 Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I
British naval aviation and the defeat of the U-boats
John J. Abbatiello
37 The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 194449
Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
38 The Development of British Naval Thinking
Essays in memory of Bryan Ranft
Edited by Geoffrey Till
39 Educating the Royal Navy
18th and 19th century education for officers
H.W. Dickinson
40 Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
The turn to Mahan
James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara
41 Naval Coalition Warfare
From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Edited by Bruce A. Elleman and S. C.M. Paine
42 Operational Warfare at Sea
Theory and practice
Milan Vego
43 Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations
Stability from the sea
Edited by James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen
44 Indian Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
James R. Holmes, Andrew C. Winner and Toshi Yoshihara
45 Seapower
A guide for the twenty-first century (second edition)
Geoffrey Till
46 Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare
