James R. Holmes

Inside, Outside: India’s ‘Exterior Lines’ in the South China Sea

New Delhi has long countenanced the idea of extra-regional operations. The Maritime Military Strategy published in 2007, for instance, lists the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean among ‘secondary...

A Founding Era for Combined Maritime Security?

In a nutshell the article posits that American naval power, and thus the United States' ability to police the seas, will continue to decline, and that Washington is attempting to...

Tackling Somali Piracy Ashore: Maritime Security and Geopolitics in the Indian Ocean

As high-profile incidents of piracy become more common off Somalia, strategists have taken to urging the US government to send expeditionary forces ashore. The article uses history and Clausewitzian theory...

James R. Holmes |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s ‘Monroe Doctrine’ and Asia’s Maritime Future

Many scholars assume that the European model of Realpolitik will prevail in Asia as the dual rise of China and India reorders regional politics. Others predict that Asia's China-centric tradition...

India and the Proliferation Security Initiative: A US Perspective

The article considers why New Delhi has shied away from full participation in the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative despite compelling national interests in improving Indian maritime forces and cooperating with...

James R. Holmes

Publication

Inside, Outside: India’s ‘Exterior Lines’ in the South China Sea

A Founding Era for Combined Maritime Security?

Tackling Somali Piracy Ashore: Maritime Security and Geopolitics in the Indian Ocean

India’s ‘Monroe Doctrine’ and Asia’s Maritime Future

India and the Proliferation Security Initiative: A US Perspective