James J. Wirtz is Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. He is co-author of War, Peace and International Relations 3rd edition (2024) and co-editor of Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies, 6th edition (2023). Captain Jeffrey E. Kline, USN (ret.) is a Professor of Practice at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. In 2019, he was awarded the J. Steinhardt Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Military Operations Research. James A. Russell is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. He is co-editor of Maritime Strategy and Naval Innovation (2021) and co-editor of The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific (2023).
Introduction. Great Power Competition: Challenges for the U.S. Navy Part I:
The Changing Techno-Strategic Setting 1. A Maritime Conversation with
America 2. Innovation for Seapower: U.S. Navy Strategy in an age of
Acceleration 3. Imagining Maritime Conflict in the Indo-Pacific: Can
Analogies Substitute for Strategy? Part II: The U.S. Navy: Institutional
Constraints 4. Innovation and Navy-Time 5. Long-Term Navy Strategy: Meeting
the Techno-Strategic Challenge 6. Twenty -First-Century Innovation Pathways
for the U.S. Navy in the Age of Competition Part III: Toward a U.S. Navy
Strategy 7. Impacts of the Robotics Age on Naval Force Design,
Effectiveness, and Acquisition 8. The 'Bi-Modal' Force Design Revisited 9.
Indications & Warning Intelligence for the Western Pacific 10. The United
States Navy and Integrated Deterrence Conclusion. A Strategy for the Long
Term