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How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations In World War Ii, Richard Norton, Lars Celander Apr 2022

How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations In World War Ii, Richard Norton, Lars Celander

Naval War College Review

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Review Essay—“Neither Knaves Nor Fools”: "The War Lords And The Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain To Its Worst Defeat Of The First World War", Thomas C. Hone, Nicholas A. Lambert Apr 2022

Review Essay—“Neither Knaves Nor Fools”: "The War Lords And The Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain To Its Worst Defeat Of The First World War", Thomas C. Hone, Nicholas A. Lambert

Naval War College Review

This thoroughly researched and very well written book is based on the research that Nicholas Lambert did for his Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War, published in 2012.


Innovation, Interrupted—Next-Generation Surface-Combatant Design, David H. Lewis Apr 2022

Innovation, Interrupted—Next-Generation Surface-Combatant Design, David H. Lewis

Naval War College Review

Three ships designed in the 1930s that fought in the Pacific theater during the early months of America’s involvement in World War II represent three different ship design approaches that continue to create dissonance in the U.S. Navy’s current ship-design processes. The Navy must transition to a next-generation surface-combatant-design process to accommodate the future warfighting environment.


Nuclear-Crisis Management And Cyber War—A Dangerous Crossroads, Stephen J. Cimbala Apr 2022

Nuclear-Crisis Management And Cyber War—A Dangerous Crossroads, Stephen J. Cimbala

Naval War College Review

States’ actual experience in managing nuclear crises occurred almost entirely prior to the information age. The rule book for nuclear-crisis management in this era of cyber deterrence and cyber war remains to be written. Advanced cyberwar capabilities might interfere with future crisis management, resulting in misperceptions, faulty communications, and hasty judgments.


An Offensive Minelaying Campaign Against China, Matthew Cancian Apr 2022

An Offensive Minelaying Campaign Against China, Matthew Cancian

Naval War College Review

Using existing assets, it is feasible to lay minefields in the Taiwan Strait to delay any Chinese military movement against Taiwan, providing a crisis-response option more forceful than diplomacy but less risky than kinetic operations. This option must be developed in peacetime to be available to U.S. leaders in a crisis.


President's Forum, Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College Apr 2022

President's Forum, Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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From The Editors, Robert Ayer Apr 2022

From The Editors, Robert Ayer

Naval War College Review

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Winter 2022 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Apr 2022

Winter 2022 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Spring 2017 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Mar 2022

Spring 2017 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Reflections On Reading, The U.S. Naval War College Jan 2022

Reflections On Reading, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Something Of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle And The Anglo-Boer War, Richard Norton, Sarah Lefanu Jan 2022

Something Of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle And The Anglo-Boer War, Richard Norton, Sarah Lefanu

Naval War College Review

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Dangerous Narratives: Warfare, Strategy, Statecraft, Nick Omichinski, Ajit K. Maan Jan 2022

Dangerous Narratives: Warfare, Strategy, Statecraft, Nick Omichinski, Ajit K. Maan

Naval War College Review

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Coalition Of The Unwilling And Unable: European Realignment And The Future Of American Geopolitics, Ryan C. Hendrickson, John R. Deni Jan 2022

Coalition Of The Unwilling And Unable: European Realignment And The Future Of American Geopolitics, Ryan C. Hendrickson, John R. Deni

Naval War College Review

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Escaping The Conflict Trap: Toward Ending Civil Wars In The Middle East, Kurt Buckendorf, Paul Salem, Ross Harrison Jan 2022

Escaping The Conflict Trap: Toward Ending Civil Wars In The Middle East, Kurt Buckendorf, Paul Salem, Ross Harrison

Naval War College Review

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The Kaiser’S U-Boat Assault On America: Germany’S Great War Gamble In The First World War, Timothy J. Demy, Hans Joachim Koerver Jan 2022

The Kaiser’S U-Boat Assault On America: Germany’S Great War Gamble In The First World War, Timothy J. Demy, Hans Joachim Koerver

Naval War College Review

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Review Essay—Adaptation And The School Of War: "Mars Adapting: Military Change During War", John T. Kuehn, Frank G. Hoffman Jan 2022

Review Essay—Adaptation And The School Of War: "Mars Adapting: Military Change During War", John T. Kuehn, Frank G. Hoffman

Naval War College Review

Retired Marine officer and National Defense University research fellow Frank Hoffman’s Mars Adapting is, first and foremost, a work of military theory. Hoffman initially achieved notoriety for his work and briefs about something he characterized as hybrid or compound warfare, since popularized alongside the rise in interest in gray-zone conflict. This book’s major contribution is similarly theoretical, but in the area of institutional learning, not modalities of war. Hoffman argues “for greater consideration of Organizational Learning Theory [OLT] to establish an analytical framework.”


Review Essay—The Swartz Festschrift: "Conceptualizing Maritime & Naval Strategy: Festschrift For Captain Peter M. Swartz, United States Navy (Ret.)", Robert C. Rubel, Sebastian Bruns, Sarandis Papadopoulos Jan 2022

Review Essay—The Swartz Festschrift: "Conceptualizing Maritime & Naval Strategy: Festschrift For Captain Peter M. Swartz, United States Navy (Ret.)", Robert C. Rubel, Sebastian Bruns, Sarandis Papadopoulos

Naval War College Review

Captain Peter M. Swartz, USN (Ret.), has been a prominent figure in the maritime-strategy world since the early 1980s, playing a key role in the development and articulation of the noted 1980s Maritime Strategy. After retirement from active duty, he joined the staff at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), where he became a noted archivist and analyst of USN strategy documents, as well as an adviser to many naval officers and academics who dealt with strategy. On his retirement from CNA, two academics who had benefited from Swartz’s mentorship put together a Festschrift—a volume of essays to honor him …


“To Die Gallantly”?—The Role Of The Surface Fleet In German Naval Strategy, 1919–41, Peter Hooker Jan 2022

“To Die Gallantly”?—The Role Of The Surface Fleet In German Naval Strategy, 1919–41, Peter Hooker

Naval War College Review

While the U-boat dominated Germany’s naval war from 1942 on, its surface fleet played a far more significant strategic role to that point than is appreciated. The construction of that fleet was not the result of myopia but of considered appraisals of the German navy’s performance in the First World War and the development of naval technology during the interwar period.


The Limits Of Sea Power, Jakub J. Grygiel Jan 2022

The Limits Of Sea Power, Jakub J. Grygiel

Naval War College Review

Sea powers have many handicaps that often are forgotten, resulting in a dangerous overestimation of their safety, influence, and staying power in a competitive world. A more clear-eyed assessment of sea power—one less enamored of the grandeur associated with naval might—reveals that often their hopes were unwarranted and ended up having tragic results.


Jomini And Naval Special Operations Forces—An Applied-Competition Approach To Russia, Kevin D. Stringer Jan 2022

Jomini And Naval Special Operations Forces—An Applied-Competition Approach To Russia, Kevin D. Stringer

Naval War College Review

A version of Jomini’s campaigning theory, in combination with maritime special-operations capabilities, offers a convincing maritime approach for contesting Russia’s malign activity in Europe while remaining below the level of armed conflict and supporting a broader conventional effort to prepare a war-fighting environment by using irregular warfare to secure advantages prior to conflicts.


Seoul’S Misguided Desire For A Nuclear Submarine, James Campbell Jan 2022

Seoul’S Misguided Desire For A Nuclear Submarine, James Campbell

Naval War College Review

Rather than waste its money on nuclear submarines that would provide only a single-dimensional response, South Korea should lock down a superior ASW suite by combining new technologies with existing ROKN platforms to provide multiple mission capabilities for less money, including support by existing maintenance infrastructure.


Sizing The Carriers—A Brief History Of Alternatives, Sam J. Tangredi Jan 2022

Sizing The Carriers—A Brief History Of Alternatives, Sam J. Tangredi

Naval War College Review

In the end, the debate over aircraft carriers always boils down to cost; their acquisition costs are much higher than for any other single-item defense program, making them a natural target for criticism. Combined with a simplistic perception of vulnerability, high costs tend to cause critics to declare aircraft carriers unaffordable—but “compared to what?”


Aircraft Carriers—Missions, Survivability, Size, Cost, Numbers, John F. Lehman, Steven Wills Jan 2022

Aircraft Carriers—Missions, Survivability, Size, Cost, Numbers, John F. Lehman, Steven Wills

Naval War College Review

A new, twenty-first-century design of the size of USS Midway with an air wing up to sixty-five aircraft, whether conventionally or nuclear powered, could complement larger nuclear flattops while still incorporating rugged survivability and being capable of independent operations—and could be built quicker and cheaper and in more shipyards.


Autumn 2021 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Jan 2022

Autumn 2021 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


From The Editors, Robert Ayer Jan 2022

From The Editors, Robert Ayer

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Last Mission To Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story Of The Doolittle Raiders And Their Final Fight For Justice, Jacob Meusch, Michel Paradis Oct 2021

Last Mission To Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story Of The Doolittle Raiders And Their Final Fight For Justice, Jacob Meusch, Michel Paradis

Naval War College Review

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The Allure Of Battle: A History Of How Wars Have Been Won And Lost, Richard J. Norton, Cathal J. Nolan Oct 2021

The Allure Of Battle: A History Of How Wars Have Been Won And Lost, Richard J. Norton, Cathal J. Nolan

Naval War College Review

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Redeployment Of The German Brest Group Through The English Channel, 11–13 February 1942 (Operation Cerberus), Milan Vego Oct 2021

Redeployment Of The German Brest Group Through The English Channel, 11–13 February 1942 (Operation Cerberus), Milan Vego

Naval War College Review

In this redeployment—a nearly unique operation—the Germans were highly successful in both planning and execution, while the British response was incoherent and poorly coordinated and executed, providing a rich trove of operational lessons still valid today.


“An Object Lesson To The Country”—The 1915 Atlantic Fleet Summer Exercise And The U.S. Navy On The Eve Of World War I, Ryan Peeks Oct 2021

“An Object Lesson To The Country”—The 1915 Atlantic Fleet Summer Exercise And The U.S. Navy On The Eve Of World War I, Ryan Peeks

Naval War College Review

This unrealistic summer exercise scenario was designed to embarrass the Secretary of the Navy and force the Wilson administration to expand the Navy, illuminating three aspects of the service on the cusp of America’s entry into war: a rupture in civil-military relations, the use to which the Navy put its German counterpart, and Navy leaders’ assessment of the service after two decades of naval buildup.


The British And The Limitations Of Maritime Maneuver, Geoffrey Till Oct 2021

The British And The Limitations Of Maritime Maneuver, Geoffrey Till

Naval War College Review

Strategists who are turning to maritime maneuver to achieve their ends amid intensifying great-power competition should be aware that the British historical experience shows that—owing to its costs, challenges, and limitations—the approach most often has failed to deliver on its strategic promise.