The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific: Strategy, Order, and Regional Security - with Alessio Patalano
strategy, theory, history
Today we’re going to discuss a helpful solution to the simple reality in our busy world that it is difficult to build a culture of understanding of any challenge unless those involved in addressing that challenge have a similar foundational knowledge of it.
As in most complicated issues, addressing the rise of the People’s Republic of China suffers perhaps more than most from this lack of a foundation to build off of.
Our guest today is Dr. Alessio Patalano who along with his fellow contributing editors Catherine L. Grant and James A. Russell published this summer through Georgetown University Press, The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific: Strategy, Order, and Regional Security, that brings together a variety of authors’ works to outline an framework in which five "factors of influence" explain how and why naval power matters in this pivotal part of the world.
Professor Patalano is a Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies (DWS), and Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy (CGS) at King’s College London (KCL).
The future will be fraught with good decisions and bad. Currently the US government is dead set on bad decisions.
China knows what it wants but it's thinking is rooted in mass and quantity.
I sm sure that all those former British and French colonies are so happy to see the American Navy take over from the Royal Navy.