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No Oil For The Lamps Of China?, Gabriel B. Collins, William S. Murray
No Oil For The Lamps Of China?, Gabriel B. Collins, William S. Murray
Naval War College Review
Chinese naval and strategic planners fear, and their Western counterparts seem to believe, that a maritime blockade could interrupt or significantly impede China’s energy supplies in a limited war. But probably it could not, and thinking it could is dangerous for everyone.
The New Maritime Strategy—The Rest Of The Story, Robert C. Rubel
The New Maritime Strategy—The Rest Of The Story, Robert C. Rubel
Naval War College Review
The Naval War College made a major contribution to the conceptualization and formulation of the new maritime strategy. The organizer of the College’s effort lays out some of the logic that governed its approach to the project and addresses from that perspective what the strategy’s purposes are, and are not.
Implementing The Seapower Strategy, Wayne P. Hughes Jr.
Implementing The Seapower Strategy, Wayne P. Hughes Jr.
Naval War College Review
The “Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower”—the new maritime strategy—is the result of a broadly based, collaborative effort, and it has great significance as a guide for the nation’s maritime operations. But what does it not say? What remains to be done?
“A Cooperative Strategy For 21st Century Seapower”—A View From Outside, Geoffrey Till
“A Cooperative Strategy For 21st Century Seapower”—A View From Outside, Geoffrey Till
Naval War College Review
Many navies around the world are thinking through their own strategic conundrums in matching resources to commitments and so are watching with great interest how the U.S. Navy “squares this circle.” How will its strategic thinking develop? How will it structure the fleet? How will it operate? How should everyone else respond?
From The Editors, Carnes Lord
Full Spring 2008 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College
Full Spring 2008 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College
Naval War College Review
No abstract provided.
Summer 2006 Full Review, The U.S. Naval War College
Summer 2006 Full Review, The U.S. Naval War College
Naval War College Review
No abstract provided.
The British Seaborne Empire,, John B. Hattendorf
The British Seaborne Empire,, John B. Hattendorf
Naval War College Review
Jeremy Black deliberately titled his book to link it with two classics, works that every maritime historian knows: C. R. Boxer’s The Dutch Seaborne Empire (1965) and J. H. Parry’s The Spanish Seaborne Empire (1966). The planned volume in that series that would have provided an overview of the British Empire was never completed, although nearly twenty years later D. B. Quinn and A. N. Ryan filled the gap for the early phase with their England’s Sea Empire, 1550–1642 (1983). Black’s con- tribution shows a significantly different approach as well as a much broader and more nuanced view of the …
Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergenceof The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868–1922,, S. C. M. Paine.
Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergenceof The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868–1922,, S. C. M. Paine.
Naval War College Review
Charles Schencking, in charting Japan’s creation of the world’s third-largest navy by 1922, illuminates the workings of the Japanese political system and the evolution of both interservice rivalries and civil-military relations in the de- cades preceding World War II. He bases his history on an impressive reading of Japanese and English-language primary and secondary sources to produce a story with political implications far be- yond the history of one service.
The Submarine: A History,, William S. Murray
The Submarine: A History,, William S. Murray
Naval War College Review
In this excellent and rather lengthy book, Thomas Parrish uses detailed vi- gnettes to illustrate how submarines, the men who operated them, and the organizations that produced them changed naval warfare between great powers during the twentieth century. The author does this with a deft hand, providing a wealth of details concerning many notable personalities and techni- cal facts of his arcane subject in a way that both informs and entertains. One has only to read the first three pages, which quickly discuss the short and tragic life of the Confederate submarine CSS H. L. Hunley, to get an accurate …
Imperial Grunts: The American Military On The Ground,, Zygmunt F. Dembek
Imperial Grunts: The American Military On The Ground,, Zygmunt F. Dembek
Naval War College Review
Robert Kaplan’s book Imperial Grunts is an account of a war journalist cum travel writer visiting U.S. military com- mands worldwide. Kaplan travels through “barracks and outposts of the American Empire,” from Yemen to Co- lombia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Af- ghanistan, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa, introducing readers to “imperial grunts” (U.S. Marines and Army troops and the Navy and Air Force personnel who sup- port them) at these forward-deployed locations.
Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College
Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College
Naval War College Review
No abstract provided.
In My View, Dennis B. Wilson, W.J Holland Jr., David K. Brown
In My View, Dennis B. Wilson, W.J Holland Jr., David K. Brown
Naval War College Review
The central thesis of the article entitled “U.S. Policy on Small Arms and Light Weapons,” by Loretta Bondì, which appeared in the Winter 2006 edition of the Naval War College Review, is that the U.S. system of export controls on small arms is as good as any, and better than most other countries, but that American moral authority in this area is undermined by its permitting widespread civilian ownership of firearms.
Night Session Of The Presidium Of The Central Committee,22–23 October 1962, Alexander Fursenko
Night Session Of The Presidium Of The Central Committee,22–23 October 1962, Alexander Fursenko
Naval War College Review
On the night of 22 October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev* arranged for all mem- bers of the Presidium† to be telephoned and summoned to a meeting. At about seven o’clock at night, Moscow time, all were asked to promptly report to the Kremlin. When the Central Committee’s secretary, Frol R. Kozlov, then Khrushchev’s right-hand man, was asked by deputy premier Anastas I. Mikoyan the reason for the emergency session, the former replied that “an important an- nouncement is expected from [President John F.] Kennedy regarding Cuba.”
The Attack At Taranto, Angelo N. Caravaggio
The Attack At Taranto, Angelo N. Caravaggio
Naval War College Review
The lack of a decisive British victory in the Mediterranean theater fundamen- tally affected British maritime strategy throughout the Second World War. The Royal Italian Navy, or Regia Marina Italiana (RMI), exerted a disproportion- ate influence on British strategy and fleet disposition, because its existence could not be ignored and British operations to eliminate it failed. On 11 November 1940, Admiral Andrew Cunningham, the British commander of naval forces in the Mediterranean, had the opportunity to eliminate the entire complement of battleships from the Italian order of battle, at Taranto.
Geography, Technology, And British Naval Strategyin The Dreadnought Era, Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Geography, Technology, And British Naval Strategyin The Dreadnought Era, Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Naval War College Review
In The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, Alfred Thayer Mahan ar- gued that the effective deployment of naval force had determined the outcomes of the great European wars of the eighteenth century. Many, if not most, readers believed that this historical survey was the basis of related major arguments that were applicable to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first was that naval supremacy was the prerequisite to economic prosperity and international political preeminence.
U.S. Coast Guard Health Services Respondersin Maritime Homeland Security, Arthur J. French, Joe Direnzo Iii, Chris Doane
U.S. Coast Guard Health Services Respondersin Maritime Homeland Security, Arthur J. French, Joe Direnzo Iii, Chris Doane
Naval War College Review
Unlike most other federal agencies, the Coast Guard is a true first-response organization, with statutory authority and responsibilities that allow re- sponses following a disaster without waiting for a Stafford Act declaration of state request for assistance. This ability and expectation have been lauded in the public press critiques of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. As an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, the lead federal department for responses to terrorism and natural disasters, the Coast Guard must maintain capabilities to respond to terror- ism and all-hazard incidents in the maritime and coastal regions.
Medical Command And Control In Sea-Based Operations, Arthur M. Smith, Harold R. Bohman
Medical Command And Control In Sea-Based Operations, Arthur M. Smith, Harold R. Bohman
Naval War College Review
During World War II it took the Navy and Marine Corps years to confirm and refine their prewar doctrine for amphibious attack. The labor began with the first U.S. landings at Guadalcanal in August 1942; the resulting doc- trine, organization, tactics, and techniques were subsequently used by the Army in Europe. Early operations in both theaters highlighted the enormous difficul- ties associated with essential medical elements, and it was not until late 1944, perhaps 1945, that these problems were adequately solved.
Japanese Maritime Thought: If Not Mahan, Who?, Toshi Yoshihara, James R. Holmes
Japanese Maritime Thought: If Not Mahan, Who?, Toshi Yoshihara, James R. Holmes
Naval War College Review
The late Colonel John Boyd, who knew a thing or two about strategic thought, was fond of declaring that excellence in warfare and other human endeavors depended on people, ideas, and hardware—in that order.1 We postulate that Japan has lost sight of this commonsense axiom, allowing strategic thought to atrophy.
From The Editors, The U.S. Naval War College Press
From The Editors, The U.S. Naval War College Press
Naval War College Review
The lead article in this issue of the Review continues our exploration of contemporary developments in the maritime domain in Asia. James Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara, in their tour d’horizon of Japanese naval thinking from the late nine- teenth century to the present, offer an intriguing contrast between the decline of Mahanian navalist theory in Japan following World War II and the theory’s recent rise in the People’s Republic of China, and they challenge the Japanese mili- tary leadership to face up to the implications of the current lack of a broad strategic concept governing Japan’s approach to regional maritime …
Winter 2006 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College
Winter 2006 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College
Naval War College Review
No abstract provided.
From The Editors, Pelham G. Boyer
From The Editors, Pelham G. Boyer
Naval War College Review
Carnes Lord, professor of military and naval strategy in the Strategic Research Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, has recently been appointed editor of the Naval War College Press. Dr. Lord is a political scientist with broad interests in international and strategic studies, national security organization and management, and political philosophy.
The Russian Military: Power And Purpose,, Stephen Blank
The Russian Military: Power And Purpose,, Stephen Blank
Naval War College Review
The study of the Russian armed forces has, like those armed forces themselves, fallen upon hard times in the contempo- rary world. Therefore, this study is most welcome. The editors and authors Americans, Europeans, and Russians— are all acknowledged experts, so it is not surprising that all the essays are of uniformly high quality. The editors also deserve praise for including a chapter on the defense economy; its evolution is a telling indicator of Russia’s defense policy and overall political economy.
Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking, Richard Norton
Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking, Richard Norton
Naval War College Review
Among the many attributes desired in professional military officers is the abil- ity to make extremely rapid decisions under conditions of extreme stress and peril, and for the highest imaginable stakes. Decisions may even have to be made in less time than is available con- sciously to weigh the alternatives and select a course of action. Although not unique—others, including doctors, law enforcement officials, and firefighters, face similar situations and under equiv- alent expectations—such demands are not a common part of most people’s work experience.
Warfighting And Disruptive Technologies: Disguising Innovation,, Robert C. Rubel
Warfighting And Disruptive Technologies: Disguising Innovation,, Robert C. Rubel
Naval War College Review
Captain Terry Pierce is a serving naval officer who has studied innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Govern- ment at Harvard, under the supervision of Stephen Rosen. This book appears to be the author’s dissertation, written as part of a series on strategy and history edited by Colin Gray and Williamson Murray. Beyond that, nothing about this book is clear or straightforward, including the title. The title leads one to think that the book will examine how revolutionary technologies have transformed warfare, but the subtitle, “Disguising Innovation,” should serve as a warning—nothing is as it first seems.
Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib, Ron Ratcliff
Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib, Ron Ratcliff
Naval War College Review
Seymour Hersh continues with his lat- est work his journey as a man with an agenda. Released in September 2004, it is a compilation of articles published in The New Yorker, with additional infor- mation intended to present a congruent, as well as compelling, story about the Bush administration’s efforts to wage a worldwide war on terrorism. That Hersh is a fan neither of the presi- dent and his closest aides nor of the Iraq war is made abundantly clear from the opening pages.
National Security Law, Second Edition,, Sean P. Henseler
National Security Law, Second Edition,, Sean P. Henseler
Naval War College Review
In 1990 John Norton Moore and Robert F. Turner, along with Frederick S. Tipson, published a National Security Law casebook covering a “new field in American law and legal education,” a work designed for “use in law schools, advanced degree programs in international relations and national security, and the nation’s war colleges and service academies—as well as to serve as a handy desk reference for professionals and practitioners.” Since the publication of that first edi- tion the U.S. national security landscape has undergone a radical transforma- tion. Over the last fifteen years the United States has been to war in …
International Security: An Analytical Survey,, Tom Fedyszyn
International Security: An Analytical Survey,, Tom Fedyszyn
Naval War College Review
National security students and practi- tioners commonly dive into esoteric de- bates on the merits of various grand strategies and foreign policies, having spent little or no time pondering the contemporary meaning of the term that drives the discussion—“security.” Michael Sheehan, professor of interna- tional relations at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, and author of a number of authoritative texts on related subjects, was driven to write this book by a felt need to shed more light on this “contested concept.” International Secu- rity does an admirable job of illustrat- ing the myriad ways in which scholars have used …
Book Reviews, The U.S Naval War College
Book Reviews, The U.S Naval War College
Naval War College Review
No abstract provided.
U.S. Foreign Policy In Central Asia, Alan Lee Boyer
U.S. Foreign Policy In Central Asia, Alan Lee Boyer
Naval War College Review
Located in the heart of Central Asia are five weak states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Structural factors such as small populations and geographic remoteness, combined with a failure to provide ade- quate levels of “political goods,” are the sources of their weakness.1 The govern- ments’ failures are due in large part to the political and economic development paths they have followed since independence at the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The governments in Central Asia are largely authoritarian and ruled by for- mer Communist Party officials.