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The Tools of Owatatsumi : Japan's Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (162 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022278
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Tools of OwatatsumiDDC classification:
  • 621.38928
LOC classification:
  • KZ3684.5.J3 -- .B355 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Frontispiece -- Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Post-Cold War Intrusions into Japanese Waters -- 3. The JMSDF's Ocean Surveillance Architecture -- 4. The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) -- 5. The Organisation of the JMSDF: The High Command, Fleet Bases and Regional Districts -- 6. Japanese Undersea Surveillance Systems, 1920-45 -- 7. Technical Developmentssince 1945 -- 8. US SOSUS Stations -- 9. JMSDF ELINT/Undersea Surveillance Stations -- 10. Airborne Ocean Surveillance -- 11. JMSDF SIGINT Collection and Ocean Surveillance Ships -- 12. The US Ocean Surveillance Information System (OSIS) -- 13. The Maritime Safety Agency (MSA) / Japan Coast Guard (JCG) -- 14. Assessment of Japan's Ocean Surveillance Capabilities -- Bibliography.
Summary: Maritime surveillance capabilities - underwater, shore-based and airborne - are critical to Japan's national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature.
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Intro -- Frontispiece -- Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Post-Cold War Intrusions into Japanese Waters -- 3. The JMSDF's Ocean Surveillance Architecture -- 4. The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) -- 5. The Organisation of the JMSDF: The High Command, Fleet Bases and Regional Districts -- 6. Japanese Undersea Surveillance Systems, 1920-45 -- 7. Technical Developmentssince 1945 -- 8. US SOSUS Stations -- 9. JMSDF ELINT/Undersea Surveillance Stations -- 10. Airborne Ocean Surveillance -- 11. JMSDF SIGINT Collection and Ocean Surveillance Ships -- 12. The US Ocean Surveillance Information System (OSIS) -- 13. The Maritime Safety Agency (MSA) / Japan Coast Guard (JCG) -- 14. Assessment of Japan's Ocean Surveillance Capabilities -- Bibliography.

Maritime surveillance capabilities - underwater, shore-based and airborne - are critical to Japan's national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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