The Deciding Factor in a Sino-American War? Shipbuilding
The United States could lose a Western Pacific naval war because Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) can regenerate combat power more readily than the U.S. sea services can.
The commandant is a Cassandra worth heeding.
James Holmes is J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific.
This first appeared in 2020 and is being reposted due to reader interest.
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