Rebuilding American Military Power in the Pacific: A 21st-Century Strategy provides an all-encompassing look at the challenges facing the United States in shaping a 21st-century Pacific strategy: dealing with the growing Chinese colossus, the unpredictable nuclear challenge presented by North Korea, the dynamic of the Arctic opening, and maintaining the security of the conveyor belt of goods and services in the Pacific. Can the United States successfully train and prepare for the 21st century, and break free from the mindset that determined its strategies in the previous century? The authors of the work explain why a carefully considered, fully modernized Pacific strategy is a key element for the evolution of American military power--and why shaping an effective air and maritime strategy in the Pacific as well as globally is the crucial challenge facing the U.S. military and the policy community. Written by authors with significant access to the media, think tanks, and high-level politicians, the book provides an insider's look at how American military leaders are building out relevant capabilities in the Pacific to defend America and its allies, and it contains extensive interviews with those leaders.


Robbin F. Laird is cofounder of Second Line of Defense and a long-time analyst of global defense issues, and has worked in the U.S. government and with several think tanks, including the Center for Naval Analysis and the Institute for Defense Analysis.The Honorable Edward Timperlake is coauthor of Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton and Al Gore Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash, a New York Times bestseller on Chinese influence in American politics. He is currently editor of the Second Line of Defense Forum.Richard Weitz, PhD, is senior fellow and director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute. He is the author of Praeger’s War and Governance: International Security in a Changing World Order and Global Security Watch--Russia: A Reference Handbook.