CONTENTS
Preface
CHAPTER I
What Is a Hollow Military?
CHAPTER II
Why Seapower?
CHAPTER III
Sinews Challenged: Russia
CHAPTER IV
Failure of Imagination
CHAPTER V
The Invasion of Estonia
CHAPTER VI
Sinews Challenged: China
CHAPTER VII
Old Strategy Meets New Facts
China Tests U.S. Seapower in the West Pacific
CHAPTER VIII
Budget Apocalypse
How Defense Cuts and the “Sequester” Came to Be
CHAPTER IX
They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait
CHAPTER X
Rebuilding American Seapower
The U.S. Marine Corps
CHAPTER XI
Naval Rearmament
CHAPTER XII
The Mediterranean Tide Shifts
CHAPTER XIII
The Morality of Defense
Notes
Index