The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition

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