U.S. Obsession with Old Dogma Facilitates a Chinese Quest for Pacific Control
By Commodore Kazi Emdadul Haq, BSP, ndu, psc, BN (retd) Founding Member, Bangladesh Institute of Maritime Research and Development (BIMRAD) Abstract Pursuing Sun Tzu's strategy of deception to win without waging war, China has not only risen but challenged US supremacy, especially in the Pacific region. Awoken from hibernation, the United States found it difficult to maintain freedom at sea following Mahan's sea control strategy. The United States was obsessed for decades with Huntington's theory that made Islamic countries its enemy. The U.S, discovered, however, that China had become a formidable power challenging the US Monroe doctrine that serves [...]
