Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 991 - 1020 of 1618

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

President’S Forum—Our Citizen-Sailors And Professional Military Education, Jacob L. Shuford Apr 2018

President’S Forum—Our Citizen-Sailors And Professional Military Education, Jacob L. Shuford

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Autumn 2007 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Apr 2018

Autumn 2007 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Summer 2005 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Apr 2018

Summer 2005 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


From The Editors, The U.S. Naval War College Press Apr 2018

From The Editors, The U.S. Naval War College Press

Naval War College Review

The twenty-second of our monograph series, China’s Nuclear Force Moderniza- tion, edited by Lyle J. Goldstein with Andrew S. Erickson, is now available from the editorial offices and online. Professor Goldstein, of the Strategic Research Department of the College’s Center for Naval Warfare Studies, has been at the forefront of recent research into China’s future.


Peacekeeping On The Plains: Army Operations Inbleeding Kansas,, Richard Norton Apr 2018

Peacekeeping On The Plains: Army Operations Inbleeding Kansas,, Richard Norton

Naval War College Review

Tony Mullis, a serving officer in the U.S. Air Force, takes a close look at a Composite Default screen time when approximately 10 percent of the U.S. Army was intimately involved in one of the most challenging and po- litically charged assignments ever given to the U.S. military. Assigned occupa- tion duties in a land where tribal loyal- ties had been the primary form of government, Army officers, in coopera- tion with diplomats appointed by the president, were tasked to assist a fledg- ling democracy attain statehood while avoiding incipient civil war.


Churchill And Strategic Dilemmas Before The World Wars:Essays In Honor Of Michael I. Handel,, Christopher H. Sterling Apr 2018

Churchill And Strategic Dilemmas Before The World Wars:Essays In Honor Of Michael I. Handel,, Christopher H. Sterling

Naval War College Review

One of three volumes of essays (two fo- cus on different aspects of strategy) pub- lished in Handel’s memory, this work is based on a conference held in Newport, Rhode Island. It offers four scholarly pa- pers on Churchill’s assessment of the German naval challenge before the First World War, Pacific security and the lim- its of British power between the wars, Churchill and the German threat in the late 1930s, and Churchill’s views of tech- nology. Each assesses a different aspect of Churchill’s changing role.


Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The Cia, Afghanistan, And Bin Laden,From The Soviet Invasion To September 10, 2001,, Amer Latif Apr 2018

Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The Cia, Afghanistan, And Bin Laden,From The Soviet Invasion To September 10, 2001,, Amer Latif

Naval War College Review

The events of 9/11 led many in the United States to wonder what had actu- ally led up to that fateful day. Who was to blame? How could the United States, with its multibillion-dollar intelligence and defense budgets, have allowed such a thing to happen? In Ghost Wars, Steve Coll provides a useful, if overly long, chronology and analysis of pivotal events, missteps, indecision, apathy, and ultimately tragedy up to the day be- fore the attacks. Coll, who served as the managing editor for the Washington Post until 2004, was the paper’s South Asia bureau chief from 1989 to 1992.


Why Wars Widen: A Theory Of Predation And Balancing,, Kirsten Rafferty Apr 2018

Why Wars Widen: A Theory Of Predation And Balancing,, Kirsten Rafferty

Naval War College Review

Why Wars Widen is a theoretical and empirical analysis of why neutral states choose to enter an ongoing great-power war. Most international-relations schol- arship neglects this question, choosing instead to explain the origins of war. Haldi, of both the Naval War College and Gettysburg College, opens her book with the observation that states entering an ongoing conflict “may have interests and policies entirely distinct from those of the initial combatants.” The book seeks to reveal these interests. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the argument that neutrals are most likely to widen great- power wars in eras of low political cost, …


Balance Of Power: Theory And Practice In The 21st Century,, Richard Mansbach Apr 2018

Balance Of Power: Theory And Practice In The 21st Century,, Richard Mansbach

Naval War College Review

Although this book features a number of excellent essays, it is hard to under- stand why it was ever written. One would have profited more from reread- ing Ernst Haas’s brilliant 1953 essay on the topic (“The Balance of Power: Pre- scription, Concept, or Propaganda,” World Politics 5, no. 4 [July 1953], pp. 442–77).


Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College Apr 2018

Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Has The Red Cross–Adorned Hospital Ship Become Obsolete?, Arthur M. Smith Apr 2018

Has The Red Cross–Adorned Hospital Ship Become Obsolete?, Arthur M. Smith

Naval War College Review

Those responsible for casualty management in littoral conflicts must weigh multiple variables such as: the enemy’s war-fighting strategies and tactics; the types of weapons systems used by the enemy; the complexity of the kinds of wounds and diseases commonly encountered during armed conflict; and the availability of resources to effectively treat those conditions.


When Is Coercion Successful?, Patrick C. Bratton Apr 2018

When Is Coercion Successful?, Patrick C. Bratton

Naval War College Review

When is coercion successful? How is success to be defined? Coercion, broadly speaking, is the use of threats to influence another’s behavior. Although there is a substantial and growing literature on coercion, there is little consensus within that literature as to what qualifies as a successful example of coercion. Different authors formulate their own definitions of “success” and apply them to case studies, often with contrasting findings within the same cases. That is because the literature lacks a clear conceptual framework to analyze coercion.


Technology And Naval Blockade, Roger W. Barnett Apr 2018

Technology And Naval Blockade, Roger W. Barnett

Naval War College Review

Through the centuries major changes have taken place in the ability of states to prevent the movement of ships or particular goods over the sea lanes of the world.1 Some of the changes have been wrought by technological evolution, some by increasing importance of seaborne trade, and some by alterations in the structure of international relations. The combined effect has profoundly af- fected both the way maritime blockades are conducted in the twenty-first cen- tury and the means employed for them. In large measure, it has also rendered the traditional law of blockade obsolete.


The Growing Prospects For Maritime Security Cooperationin Southeast Asia., John F. Bradford Apr 2018

The Growing Prospects For Maritime Security Cooperationin Southeast Asia., John F. Bradford

Naval War College Review

The sea dominates Southeast Asia, covering roughly 80 percent of its area. The region’s islands and peninsulas, wedged between the Pacific and Indian oceans, border major arteries of communication and commerce. Thus the eco- nomic and political affairs of Southeast Asia have been dominated by the sea. In the premodern period, ports such as Svirijaya and Malacca established empires based upon sea power in area waters. In succeeding centuries European warships and their heavy guns were the keys to colonization.


Taiwan, James R. Holmes, Toshi Yoshihara Apr 2018

Taiwan, James R. Holmes, Toshi Yoshihara

Naval War College Review

The past four years have witnessed an unexpected warming of relations between the United States and China. The rancor generated by the EP-3 spy-plane controversy and the debate over American arms sales to Taiwan dissi- pated in the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Beijing supported the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan. It has co-operated with the United States in the war on terror, sharing intelligence and coordinating law-enforcement efforts.1 Perhaps most strikingly, Chinese officials have worked quietly but assiduously to break the nu- clear impasse on the Korean Peninsula.


Thinking About Basing, Robert E. Harkavy Apr 2018

Thinking About Basing, Robert E. Harkavy

Naval War College Review

Recent U.S. experiences—1990–91 in the Persian Gulf, in Bosnia, Kosovo, and then in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003)—have highlighted the complexities and uncertainties of basing access in the post–Cold War period. They have involved questions of access to, and overhead transit rights for, a variety of nations: all over Europe, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Tadzhikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Djibouti, and many others. They have also highlighted the crucial importance of the future of American basing access at a time of shifting alli- ances, friendships, and enmities amid wholesale changes in the structure of the international system, and of the movement to …


President’S Forum, J.L. Shuford Apr 2018

President’S Forum, J.L. Shuford

Naval War College Review

The Naval War College plays two coequal roles in preparing the Navy for the challenges of the twenty-first century: educating fu- ture leaders and helping to define naval forces and operational concepts through research, analysis, and war gaming. Although for simplicity I have said the College has two distinct missions, in reality classroom instruction and research, analysis, and war gaming are thor- oughly intertwined. In order to graduate, all of our students must participate in at least one large, multiweek war game planned by our Joint Military Operations Department and executed by our War Gaming Department. An increasing number of …


Index Of Volume 59, Carnes Lord Apr 2018

Index Of Volume 59, Carnes Lord

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Realistic Visionary: A Portrait Of George Washington, William M. Calhoun, Peter R. Henriques Apr 2018

Realistic Visionary: A Portrait Of George Washington, William M. Calhoun, Peter R. Henriques

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The Battle Of Heliogoland Bight And Distant Victory: The Battle Of Jutland And The Allied Triumph In The First World War, Holger H. Herwig, Eric W. Osborne, Daniel Allen Butler Apr 2018

The Battle Of Heliogoland Bight And Distant Victory: The Battle Of Jutland And The Allied Triumph In The First World War, Holger H. Herwig, Eric W. Osborne, Daniel Allen Butler

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


A Leader Born, Thomas Zelibor, Alton Keith Gilbert Apr 2018

A Leader Born, Thomas Zelibor, Alton Keith Gilbert

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The Development Of British Naval Thinking: Essays In Memory Of Bryan Ranft, Paul Kennedy, Geoffrey Till Apr 2018

The Development Of British Naval Thinking: Essays In Memory Of Bryan Ranft, Paul Kennedy, Geoffrey Till

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The Battle For Leyte, 1944: Allied And Japanese Plans, Preparations, And Execution, Donald M. Goldstein, Milan Vego Apr 2018

The Battle For Leyte, 1944: Allied And Japanese Plans, Preparations, And Execution, Donald M. Goldstein, Milan Vego

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Bioethics And Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas Of Medicine And War, Arthur M. Smith, Michael L. Gross Apr 2018

Bioethics And Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas Of Medicine And War, Arthur M. Smith, Michael L. Gross

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Targeted Killing And The Law Of Armed Conflict, Gary Solis Apr 2018

Targeted Killing And The Law Of Armed Conflict, Gary Solis

Naval War College Review

Targeted killing is not the battlefield killing of combatants by opposing combatants or the assassination of an individual for political purposes. But in a new age of nonstate actors engaged in transnational terrorist violence, it has become a new reality, and the law of armed conflict should recognize it.


On Major Naval Operations, Milan Vego Apr 2018

On Major Naval Operations, Milan Vego

Naval War College Review

Western naval theoreticians and planners in recent years have neglected the study of major naval operations, of the sort carried out by the U.S. Navy in World War II. But it would be dangerous to assume that major naval operations are of simply historical interest; they should be thought about more systematically.


A Bimodal Force For The National Maritime Strategy, Wayne P. Hughes Jr. Apr 2018

A Bimodal Force For The National Maritime Strategy, Wayne P. Hughes Jr.

Naval War College Review

A “bimodal” national military strategy would have two, and only two, objectives: first, the capabilities to deal with a peer competitor, and second, the means to conduct several small operations concurrently. What capabilities would the naval forces need? Would they cost no more than our present capabilities? Would this bimodal force be capable of dealing with other situations?


Notes Toward A New Maritime Strategy, George W. Baer Apr 2018

Notes Toward A New Maritime Strategy, George W. Baer

Naval War College Review

A strategy, argues a distinguished Naval War College scholar, will show the maritime services what they are to protect, what they are to pursue, and for what they are to prepare. A new maritime strategy will express the way the nation sees itself in respect to the world ocean and declare what the fleet can do about it.


President’S Forum—An International Forum For Operational And Strategic Leadership, Jacob L. Shuford Apr 2018

President’S Forum—An International Forum For Operational And Strategic Leadership, Jacob L. Shuford

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Full Spring 2007 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Apr 2018

Full Spring 2007 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.