Gerry Doyle and Blake Herzinger, Carrier Killer: China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles and Theater of Operations in the early 21st Century by Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong

In the early dawn of 26 January 1929, USS Saratoga launched nearly every aircraft on its deck toward the Panama Canal.By 0700, the naval air strike achieved complete surprise, the exercise umpires of Fleet Problem IX ruling that bombers attacking the canal's locks had rendered the canal inoperable and the mission a success.As the aircraft completed their mission, however, the battleships of the "Blue Force" discovered Saratoga almost 150 miles away, as they swept the Gulf of Panama.In the ensuing mock engagement, as the battleships opened fire and a Blue Force submarine fired a full spread of torpedoes, the umpires ruled Saratoga sunk before the airwing had returned from their mission over the canal.The mixed results of Fleet Problem IX, where the Black Force conducted a long-range air strike and successfully completed their mission of closing the Panama Canal while the Blue Force succeeded in sinking their enemy's aircraft carrier, opened a debate that has ebbed and flowed for nearly a century.How does the vulnerability of the aircraft carrier affect the way a navy thinks about its fleet?Gerry Doyle and Blake Herzinger's Carrier Killer: China's Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles and Theater of Operations in the early 21st Century brings that debate into the twenty-first century with clear analysis, excellent illustrations, and a succinct look at how the People's Republic of China (PRC) intends to place American carrier vulnerability at the center of its maritime planning.Gerry Doyle is a writer and editor with Thomson Reuters, working in the Indo-Pacific region, who has covered politics and international affairs from the streets of Chicago to the Arab Spring.Blake Herzinger is a naval reserve officer who has spent most of his career in the Pacific and works as a consultant to the US Navy and Indo-Pacific Command out of Singapore.Together, they bring not only years of experience analyzing the Pacific world, but also a keen awareness of the complexity of both the military and political dynamics of the US Navy's growing concerns over the rise of the People's Republic of China.Over the course of six short chapters, Carrier Killer examines the history, technology, strategy, political symbolism and messaging, and tactics involved in the PRC's development of anti-ship ballistic missiles.Detailed and well researched open-access information on the DF-21 and DF-26 missile systems is at the core of the text, with the authors offering honest assessments of where the unclassified information may be flimsy or incomplete.They conclude the book with a thoughtful chapter entitled "Where do we go from here?" and a conclusion which brings together the key insights of the previous chapters and

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