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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I—The Strategic ContextChapter 1 The Pacific Landscape for OperationsChapter 2 The Chinese Factor in Reshaping Pacific StrategyChapter 3 The Chinese Military Evolves along with the EconomyChapter 4 The Challenge of a Nuclear North KoreaChapter 5 Stakeholders in Dealing with the North KoreansChapter 6 The Arctic Opening: Its Strategic ImpactChapter 7 Protecting the Conveyer Belt and Preparing for SLOC Defense: A Key Foundation for a 21st-Century StrategyPart II—The Remaking of U.S. and Allied Strategy: The Case of JapanChapter 8 The Pivot to the PacificChapter 9 Japanese Defense and Foreign Policy in TransitionChapter 10 The Geopolitics of Japan's Drive for "Dynamic Defense"Part III—Shaping a New ApproachChapter 11 Key Building Blocks for Shaping a Scalable Force for 21st-Century MissionsChapter 12 Living the Transition: The USMC as the Spearhead of ChangeChapter 13 The F-35 and Pacific Strategy: Shaping a Core LynchpinChapter 14 The Weapons RevolutionChapter 15 Preparing for a Cultural RevolutionChapter 16 Reshaping the ForceChapter 17 Evolving 21st-Century CapabilitiesChapter 18 The Way AheadNotesIndex

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I—The Strategic ContextChapter 1 The Pacific Landscape for OperationsChapter 2 The Chinese Factor in Reshaping Pacific StrategyChapter 3 The Chinese Military Evolves along with the EconomyChapter 4 The Challenge of a Nuclear North KoreaChapter 5 Stakeholders in Dealing with the North KoreansChapter 6 The Arctic Opening: Its Strategic ImpactChapter 7 Protecting the Conveyer Belt and Preparing for SLOC Defense: A Key Foundation for a 21st-Century StrategyPart II—The Remaking of U.S. and Allied Strategy: The Case of JapanChapter 8 The Pivot to the PacificChapter 9 Japanese Defense and Foreign Policy in TransitionChapter 10 The Geopolitics of Japan's Drive for "Dynamic Defense"Part III—Shaping a New ApproachChapter 11 Key Building Blocks for Shaping a Scalable Force for 21st-Century MissionsChapter 12 Living the Transition: The USMC as the Spearhead of ChangeChapter 13 The F-35 and Pacific Strategy: Shaping a Core LynchpinChapter 14 The Weapons RevolutionChapter 15 Preparing for a Cultural RevolutionChapter 16 Reshaping the ForceChapter 17 Evolving 21st-Century CapabilitiesChapter 18 The Way AheadNotesIndex