The Nightmare Scenario: A US-China War

choi

The series actually does not say much. I wonder if the author has experience in naval combat.


James R Holmes, The Nightmare Scenario: A US-China War. The Diplomat, various date.

(1) Part I. Sept 19, 2012.
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval ... io-a-u-s-china-war/
(2) Part II. Sept 20, 2012.
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval ... -china-war-part-ii/
(3) Part III. Sept 23, 2012.
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval ... china-war-part-iii/
("Because Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur, who oversaw the dual offensives [in Southwest and Central Pacific, respectively], were the beneficiaries of a colossal defense buildup that commenced long before the United States entered the war. Pearl Harbor administered a blow to US power and prestige, to be sure. But shipwrights back home had been bolting together an entirely new, bigger, higher-tech fleet since 1940. Units from that fleet started arriving in the Pacific in 1943, far sooner than they would have had the buildup started after Pearl Harbor. After some desperate days in 1942, massive reinforcements afforded Nimitz and MacArthur the luxury of reverting to strategies of the strong")
(4) Part IV. Sept 24, 2012.
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval ... -china-war-part-iv/

Note:
(a) Mr Holmes, PhD, is an associate professor at US Naval War College, Newport, RI.
http://www.usnwc.edu/Academics/Faculty/James-Holmes.aspx
(b) grok (vt; coined by Robert A Heinlein †1988 American author; First Known Use 1961):
"to understand profoundly and intuitively <the eternal struggle of the human race to grok its place in the grand scheme of the universe>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grok
(c) Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) was a Prussian military theorist. Wiki
(d) Edward Luttwak (1942- ) is an American military strategist. Wiki

His book: Strategy; The logic of war and peace. Belknap Press, 1987 and 2002 (revised).
(e) Julian Corbett (1854-1922) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist. Wiki
(f) apostasy (n; from Late Latin apostasia, from Greek, literally, revolt):
"1: renunciation of a religious faith
2: abandonment of a previous loyalty : DEFECTION"
(g) walk-over (n)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=walk-over
(h) For north star, see pole star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star
("In practice, the term Pole Star usually refers to Polaris, which is the current northern pole star, also known as the North Star. The south celestial pole currently lacks a bright star like Polaris to mark its position")
(i) whipsaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipsaw
(j) Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) was British.

(k) The quotation in Part III above alludes to
* Carrier; The list. US Navy, undated
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp
(USS Essex (CV 9): commission Dec 31, 1942)
* Essex class aircraft carrier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_class_aircraft_carrier
(The Navy ordered the first three of the new design, CV-9 [essex], CV-10 and CV-11, from Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock on July 3, 1940; table: preceded by Yorktown-class and Wasp-class, succeeded by Midway-class)

(l) Part IV fails to consider US naval bases in Japan.