Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age ─ Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon

Holmes (strategy, US Naval War College) gathers together scholars of strategy and area studies in order to address the strategic orientations of the various nuclear powers (and prospective nuclear powers) of the (ill-defined) "second nuclear age." National case studies consider whether the strategic doctrines among the nuclear powers conform to classical Western understandings of strategy, the extent to which there might be a universal logic to nuclear strategy, and the factors that might explain any peculiarities of the nuclear strategies discussed. The countries discussed are South Africa, China, North Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, and "the ambiguous case of" Iran. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Toshi Yoshihara is the John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies at the US Naval War College.

James R. Holmes is an associate professor of strategy at the US Naval War College and the author of Theodore Roosevelt and World Order. Yoshihara and Holmes are also coauthors of Red Star over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to US Maritime Strategy.