JAPANESE MARITIME THOUGHT: IF NOT MAHAN, WHO?

From: Naval War College Review | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The late Colonel John Boyd, who knew a thing or two about strategic thought, was fond of declaring that excellence in warfare and other human endeavors depended on people, ideas, and hardware-in that order.1 We postulate that Japan has lost sight of this commonsense axiom, allowing strategic thou ght to atrophy. If so, this decline in strategic thought could impede Tokyo's ability to act outside the confines of the U.S.-Japanese security alliance-as it might need to, given the rise of an increasingly capable, seapower-minded China and mounting frictions between Beijing and Tokyo. We ask the ...

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