© 2017 by Seth Cropsey
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Cropsey, Seth, author.
Title: Seablindness: how political neglect is choking American seapower and what to do about it / by Seth Cropsey.
Other titles: How political neglect is choking American seapower and what to do about it
Description: New York: Encounter Books, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017006242 (print) | LCCN 2017024026 (ebook) | ISBN 9781594039164 (Ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sea-power—United States. | United States—Military policy. | United States—Strategic aspects. | Security, International. | Naval strategy.
Classification: LCC VA58.4 (ebook) | LCC VA58.4 .C76 2017 (print) | DDC 359/.030973—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017006242
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CONTENTS
China Tests U.S. Seapower in the West Pacific
How Defense Cuts and the “Sequester” Came to Be
