The Decisive Decade, Jonathan D.T. Ward
The Decisive Decade, Jonathan D.T. Ward
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The Decisive Decade
American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China

Author: Jonathan D.T. Ward

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/23/2024


Synopsis

In The Decisive Decade, Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward offers a comprehensive framework for how the US can, and must, defeat China on the world stage economically, diplomatically, militarily, and ideologically. International security and American supremacy are at stake—and now is the time for the US to take action. China's global power and influence grows every day. Working from a deep sense of national identity, the Chinese Communist Party is leading its country toward what it deems "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation," and executing a long-term Grand Strategy to topple over its chief adversary, the US. As China becomes increasingly repressive domestically and aggressive overseas, it threatens to upend America's global dominance at every turn.

Ward provides novel and practical strategies that our government, as well as our businesses and our citizens, can utilize to undermine our adversary. Exhaustive campaigns in the economic, diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas, he argues, must be taken to achieve victory. With expert analysis of the history of US-China relations, as well as insight into how the Russia-Ukrainian war can inform our strategic thinking, The Decisive Decade presents a unique toolkit for our triumph over China. We can succeed, but it won't be easy; it will take all of our nation's ingenuity, confidence, and willpower to win.

About Jonathan D.T. Ward

Jonathan D. T. Ward has been studying Russia, China, and India for nearly twenty years since his undergraduate days in Russian and Chinese language at Columbia University. Dr. Ward is the author of China's Vision of Victory, a guide to the global grand strategy of the Chinese government which has been widely read in US government and national security circles, as well as by audiences in business and finance. He earned his PhD at the University of Oxford where he specialized in China-India relations, after initially being admitted to Oxford for a doctorate in Russia-China relations during the Cold War. He has traveled widely in Russia, China, India, Latin America, and the Middle East, and speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, among other languages. As a subject matter expert, Dr. Ward has been an advisor to the US Department of Defense on Chinese long-term strategy and has briefed numerous US government audiences including at US Strategic Command, US Indo-Pacific Command, the US Department of Commerce, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Strategy Division of the US Naval Staff. Through his consulting company, Atlas Organization, Dr. Ward helps Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions understand US-China global competition, improve their risk assessments on China, and build new global strategies that can withstand historic geopolitical change. He is a frequent commentator on national and international television and radio, with appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, Fox, MSNBC, and CNN International, among other stations. He lives in Washington, DC.


Reviews

The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China is an expansive new book from consultant and scholar Jonathan D.T. Ward. It examines America’s readiness for competition and conflict with China, arguing that America must reinvigorate its grand strategy to maintain its global leade......more

Goodreads review by Rick

Jonathan Ward correctly identifies Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and the People's Republic of China (PRC) as America's number one adversary today, but then his goes off the rails offering economic and military policies that have always failed when......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

I won this book on Goodreads and am glad I did. Jonathon Ward explains the nature of our competition with China, or more specifically the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Engagement through trade has been met with industries in the West being shuttered, innovations stolen by espionage and outright the......more

Goodreads review by Carter

Interesting and well written, but a little long and repetitive. Very persuasive.......more

Goodreads review by Austin

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