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 People who have read "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA" keep asking how this 3,000 year old catfish knows so much. Well, obviously being 3,000 years old gives one a unique and very deep historical perspective. While Namazu generally hangs out in the Pacific off the Sea of Japan he is a world traveler as his recent visit to our office demonstrated. Being able to take human form on rare occasions gives one an inter-species broad breath of perception. But how is he  able to predict the future? Namazu says that the ability to predict the future was never in his union contract as a "demigod", a term he now describes as "unfortunate and inaccurate."He maintains that he uses the same type of analytic tools as human prognosticators but better quality, and of course he has that unique historical and global perspective. Namazu claims no future predictive accuracy much  greater than the best computer enhanced, human team of forecasters. He does claim to use better data, some of it quite expensive as we learned in that little controversy over the "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED" post. We have asked Namazu to share with his fans a reading list that will help readers to master the Catfish perspective. He has promised to keep his suggested reading list within reasonable retail pricing and to stay away from suggesting some of the data bases that he occasionally accesses that costs thousands of dollars. So today we present the his 2014 midpoint book of the half year for the NAMAZU READING LIST.



 THE NAMAZU READING LIST IS NOT REVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS EDITORIAL STAFF. THESE RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS ARE THE SOLE OPINION OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER

THE VOTES ARE IN AND THE CATFISH SPOKE HIS MIND,  AND NAMAZU AND READERS AGREE ON THE BOOK OF THE MID YEAR The Winner Is.....................

 FIRE ON THE WATER by Robert Haddick

                            

This is a comprehensive exploration of China, America and the future of the Pacific by Robert Haddick. In this work Haddick contends that most of the general public and official Washington (long lacking adult supervision) are virtually if not blissfully unaware of the threat represented by China's military modernization. Of course here at the AAB  we have literally been "Shouting" about the threat in print since the first week of our start up ,we are not unaware. We call China a thug state for her dealings with her neighbors over the islands in the South and East China Seas. We know from their public pronouncements over the last 36 months that they intend to send to U.S. Navy packing back to Pearl Harbor never to sail beyond that point again.  The author sees the U.S. naval presence in East Asia as essential to protecting America;s economy and strategic interests. He also agrees with the catfish position that the American naval presence in the area is vital to regional security. But of course maintaining that presence becomes more expensive over time. Haddick argues that the costs of maintaining this deterrent presence is less costly than relying on the regions other powers to maintain the deterrence by themselves. He warns that could lead to an unstable arms race. In the author's opinion recent U.S. responses are impractical  because they play against the Dragon's strength when we should be exploiting his weaknesses. This book proposes some serious directional changes in U.S. diplomacy, military programs, and strategies to deal with the Dragon. If you've been reading the AAB's series "How Far Will The Dragon Swim" as well as my personal pronouncements, you know this book doesn't sound like the conventional "wisdom", something that we have been cautioning against since our start up. Haddick hashes out sheer Catfish wisdom on these important matters of global consequence. CATFISH RECOMMENDED FOR GENERAL AUDIENCES.