Sarah C. Paine


Sarah C. Paine is a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College located in Newport, Rhode Island. She has written or co-edited several books on naval policy and related affairs, and subjects of particular interest to the United States Navy or Defense. Other works she has authored concern the political and military history of East Asia, particularly China, during the modern era.

''Wars for Asia 1911–1949''

Her 2012 award-winning book is an original and lively, as well as densely packed, view of the "nested wars" in early-twentieth-century East Asia. She presents the continuing conflicts there as three different wars, for a while carried on simultaneously. The war-within-a-war perspective involved: the long Chinese Civil War, here 1911–1949; the Second Sino-Japanese War, here 1931–1945; and the Second World War, here 1941–1945.
The work covers ground in some detail that was previously rather neglected in the history literature written in English.

Academic background

She holds the following degrees:
Year-long language programs completed at:
She has spent over eight years abroad, residing for several year-long stays in Taiwan and Japan, and a year each in China, Russia, and Australia. Her published works are based in part on archival research in these countries.

Selected publications

Author

Co-author with Bruce A. Elleman:
Co-editor with Bruce A. Elleman: