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Combining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea-power theory, the authors assess how the rise of Chinese sea power will affect U.S. maritime strategy in Asia. They argue that China has laid the groundwork for a sustained challenge to American primacy in maritime Asia, and to defend this hypothesis they look back to Alfred Thayer Mahan’s sea-power theories, now popular with the Chinese. The book considers how strategic thought about the sea shapes Beijing’s deliberations and compares China’s geostrategic predicament to that of the Kaiser’s Germany a century ago. It examines the Chinese navy’s operational concepts, tactics, and capabilities and appraises China’s missile force. The authors conclude that China now presents a challenge to America’s strategic position of such magnitude that Washington must compete in earnest.

Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists is a deliberately compact work aimed at both current and aspiring strategists, especially those who concern themselves with strategy at sea, and at those who work for or alongside them. The volume is meant to help strategic leaders know and educate themselves, two of the most important enterprises in the field of leadership. James R. Holmes reaches back to the classics of philosophy—especially to the works of Aristotle, the founder of the Lyceum—to posit that strategy is a habit. Rather, he writes, it involves cultivating a family of habits. To excel at strategy, one should learn what excellent strategists do and practice that ritual each day. Repetition helps the strategist find virtue, which Aristotle defined as the “golden mean” between the extremes of some trait, while shunning vice, the excess or deficiency of that trait. Over time, it becomes second nature to take the long view of national political and strategic ends; marshal diplomatic, economic, and military resources; and devise ways to put those resources to work for strategic gain. The classics of strategy feature prominently in this work. The canon sets forth concepts worth mastering. For instance, Carl von Clausewitz exhorts strategists to amass superior forces at the decisive place and time while abjuring secondary commitments that scatter resources about the map and risk leaving each force too weak to accomplish its goal. In a similar vein Alfred Thayer Mahan devises a formula for sizing fleets to overpower foes in important waters or coastal zones. Sun Tzu espouses the “indirect approach” to strategy, and B. H. Liddell Hart and J. C. Wylie join the classical Chinese general in his advocacy. In the ideal case strategists not just learn but internalize these concepts. Harnessing them in the real world becomes effortless.

Wie bestimmten die alten Ägypter die Stunden der Nacht, navigierten durch die Wüste und lasen das Schicksal in den Sternen – Jahrtausende vor der Erfindung moderner Uhren? Dieses Buch öffnet das Tor zu einem der faszinierendsten Wissenssysteme des Alten Ägypten: den Dekanen.Die 36 Sternbilder, die den nächtlichen Himmel in zehn-Tage-Abschnitte gliederten, waren für die Ägypter weit mehr als Himmelskörper. Sie waren göttliche Wegweiser, Zeitmesser und spirituelle Symbole zugleich. Von ihrer astronomischen Funktion über ihre astrologische Deutung bis hin zu ihrer Rolle in Religion, Mythologie und Navigation – James Holmes beleuchtet in diesem Buch die Dekane als ein System, das Wissenschaft und Spiritualität, Alltag und Kosmos auf einzigartige Weise verbindet.Fundiert, verständlich und reich an historischen Quellen eröffnet Die Sternenuhr der Dekane einen neuen Blick auf das astronomische Erbe des alten Ägyptens – und auf eine Zivilisation, die den Himmel nicht nur beobachtete, sondern verstand.