Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy

Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy

by Seth Cropsey
Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy

Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy

by Seth Cropsey

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Overview

A naval expert charts the rise and fall of America’s maritime supremacy—and what it means for the future of U.S. security and prosperity.

As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy has been the key to America’s superpower status and the relative peace of the postwar era. But in the twenty-first century, the United States Navy’s combat fleet has dwindled to historic lows—the smallest since before World War I. At the same time, rival nations such as China have increased the size of their navies at an extraordinary rate.

As Seth Cropsey convincingly argues, the precipitous decline of the U.S. as a great seapower will have profound consequences sooner than we might think. In clear and concise language, Mayday tracks the modern evolution of U.S. maritime strength, where it stands now, and the likely consequences if changes are not made to both the Navy’s size and shape and to the United States’ strategic understanding of how to combine maritime and continental force.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781468310009
Publisher: ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date: 09/01/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 466,864
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Seth Cropsey is the former U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy, having served under four Secretaries of the Navy in the Reagan and Bush administrations. He also served as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve for nearly two decades. He is now Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other publications.

Table of Contents

1 American Seapower in Distress 13

2 Alfred Thayer Mahan: Seapower as an Instrument of Democratic Expansion 39

3 The Roots of American Seapower 57

4 The Future of American Seapower 103

5 America Adrift 121

6 China and the Coming Threats to Dominance 147

7 What Is Lost Can Never Be Regained 181

8 Can America Still Manufacture Its Own Weapons? 209

9 To Be a Great Power, or Not 231

10 Changing American Maritime Strategy 271

Conclusion 283

Notes 305

Acknowledgments 325

Index 327

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"From diminished budgets to increased tasks the world over, the rise of potential future naval competitors, and an enfeebled procurement system the United States Navy is in serious trouble. Seth Cropsey's brilliant explanation speaks to a general audience, detailing how the failure to solve these problems will cripple America's position as a global power and risk the United States' future security. Every American should read this extraordinary book." --John Lehman, former United States Secretary of the Navy and member of the 9/11 Commission

"Mayday  looks at the past, present, and future of the U.S. Navy and finds a troubling drift toward a smaller fleet and reduced American global influence. Seth Cropsey argues that America's stature as a formidable power has and will parallel her ability to remain the world's great seapower. It is an argument that deserves the widest possible readership." --Jon Kyl, former U.S. Senate Minority Whip

"Mayday is a powerful distress call about the dangerous decline of American seapower. It's also a significant contribution to thinking about American national security policy and to formulating American grand strategy in the 21st century. And it's a good read."--William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard
 

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