Island Chains and Aircraft Carriers: Indo-Pacific Power Projection

Since the Cold War, the Indo Pacific has been framed by imagined "e;island chains"e; and the aircraft carriers that move between them, turning geography into a battlefield of power projection. This book unpacks the strategic logic of the first, second, and emerging third island chains-from Japan and Taiwan through the Philippines and Guam to Micronesia-showing how these arcs of islands anchor U.S....