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The Military Use Of Space: A Diagnostic Assessment, Carmel Davis, Barry D. Watts

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Waging Modern War, Patrick C. Sweeney, Wesley K. Clark

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Review Essay—What Are China’S Intentions?, Andrew R. Wilson, Robert Manning, Robert Montaperto, Brad Roberts

Naval War College Review

"Red Dragon Rising: Communist China’s Military Threat to America" and "China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control: A Preliminary Assessment"

Review Essay—The Past And Future Of Nonproliferation, Carnes Lord, Henry D. Sokolski

Naval War College Review

"Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign against Strategic Weapons Proliferation"

In My View, Phillip S. Meilinger

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

“A Nation Blessed”, George Bush

Naval War College Review

Was the Gulf War a “preview of coming attractions”? The war made it obvious that the end of the Cold War had not meant the end of threats to American interests or to international peace and security. If we take our security for granted, the former president warned the Naval War College’s 2001 graduates, we do so at our own peril.

After The Storm—The Growing Convergence Of The Air Force And Navy, John L. Barry, James Blaker

Naval War College Review

Are the services trying to improve their joint operational abilities fast enough? The answer, for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, has its roots in their behavior in the late 1970s and 1980s. In the future, joint operational capabilities will accelerate dramatically, because of the growing convergence between service visions and doctrines.

Has It Worked?—The Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act, James R. Locher Iii

Naval War College Review

The overall report card is mixed. In the operational dimension of the Defense Department, which its original sponsors considered most pressing, the Goldwater-Nichols Act has been very successful. The act’s “business” reforms, however, have not worked. These concerns, which may have been secondary fifteen years ago, are urgent now.

Defending Taiwan, And Why It Matters, Chris Rahman

Naval War College Review

The Chinese threat to Taiwan is the primary near-term challenge to the East Asian order. As the Taiwanese are most unlikely to surrender willingly, and as the United States has a vital national interest at stake, a strong case can be made on strategic grounds for defending Taiwan’s de facto independent status, should the need arise. An Australian scholar makes that case.

How China Might Invade Taiwan, Piers M. Wood, Charles D. Ferguson

Naval War College Review

A determined China could launch an invasion sooner than the five, ten, or twenty years that some have projected, though it would be unlikely to succeed if it made the attempt today. A phased, stepping-stone invasion would force Taiwan to decide whether to absorb casualties fighting in preliminary invasions or to conserve resources for a final stand on the main island.

Strategic Geography And The Greater Middle East, Robert Harkavy

Naval War College Review

Daily events in the Middle East, North Africa, the African Horn, South Asia, and ex-Soviet Central Asia offer little encouragement that this region is at the “end of history”—the end of major warfare and security rivalries. Two Gulf wars have been fought in recent memory, as well as Arab-Israeli and Indian-Pakistani wars. In that obvious sense, geopolitics is alive and well in the Greater Middle East.

The World According To Usama Bin Laden, Ahmed S. Hashim

Naval War College Review

Usama Bin Laden is a dangerous opponent, and so are those who might succeed him should he be killed. Bin Laden’s ideas and goals, however, remain little explored or understood. To grasp them, it is necessary to examine the regional and historical context, his experiences, and the sources of fundamentalist thought upon which he draws.

President’S Forum, Rodney P. Rempt

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Full Autumn 2001 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Heart Of K'É: Transforming Diné Special Education And Unsettling The Colonial Logics Of Disability, Sandra Yellowhorse

American Studies ETDs

This paper takes up the roles of ideology and spatiality as they impact Diné students and learners in understanding conceptions of normativity, neuro-diversity and bodily variance. I am concerned with how the movement and creation of Indigenous schools and their praxis still maintain and often times produce settler colonial ideologies of being, personhood, difference and ability. I illustrate the challenges that Diné planners and educators face in entrenching cultural knowledge and language into their educational initiatives, while some of the problematic manifestations and expressions of normativity present themselves through state polices, federal law and mainstream curriculum.

I focus on the …

Platonic And Confucian Theories On Music-Parallels And Differences, Christian Moreno

Honors Thesis

Music has always been an important part of humanity, and with the advent of the Axial Age, the period between the 8^th and 3^rd centuries BC where new ways of thinking emerged in a wide range of cultures, two of humanity’s greatest thinkers in Plato and Confucius, would apply their thoughts and theories to music. By examining their opinions of music in their written texts, especially Confucius’ Analects and Plato’s Republic, as well as modern scholarship on the subject like the work of philosopher Mark Muesse, one can gain an insight into the general thinking of these …

Experimental Testing Of A Metamaterial Slow Wave Structure For High-Power Microwave Generation, Kevin Aaron Shipman

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Experimental Testing of a Metamaterial Slow Wave Structure for High-Power Microwave Generation

by

Kevin Aaron Shipman

B.S., Exercise Science, University of New Mexico, 2008

A.S., Mathematics, San Juan College, 2014

M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2018

Abstract

A high-power L-band microwave source has been developed using a metamaterial (MTM) to produce a biperiodic double negative slow wave structure (SWS) for interaction with an electron beam. The beam is generated by a ~700 kV, ~6 kA short pulse (~ 10 ns) electron beam accelerator. The design of the metamaterial SWS (MSWS) consists of a cylindrical waveguide, loaded with alternating …

Recent Books, Alberto R. Coll

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Roots Of Strategy, Book 4, Kenneth J. Hagan, David Jablonsky

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Flags Of Our Fathers, Tom Fedyszyn, James Bradley, Ron Powers

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy’S And Johnson’S Use Of Spies, Saboteurs, And Covert Warriors In North Vietnam, Richard Norton, Richard H. Shultz Jr.

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Siege At Hue, Joseph Anderson, George W. Smith

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Fighting For The Future: Will America Triumph?, Jan Van Tol, Ralph Peters

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Best Truth: Intelligence In The Information Age, Dale C. Rielage, Bruce D. Berkowitz, Allan E. Goodman

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Review Essay—Official History, Not “Instant Analysis”, Alexander S. Cochran, Edward J. Marolda, Robert J. Schneller Jr.

Naval War College Review

"Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War"

Thinking About Innovation, Williamson Murray

Naval War College Review

The Pentagon lives in a sea of slogans, elaborate electronic graphics, and a self-satisfied belief that new platforms will solve tactical and operational problems. But slick presentations do not equate to serious military thought, and technology has rarely been more than an enabler of revolutions.

Pueblo—A Retrospective, Richard Mobley

Naval War College Review

Diplomacy ultimately freed the crew of the USS Pueblo, but as formerly classified documents show, in the first days of the crisis it was the military that was called upon to respond. Naval power would have played an important role in any immediate attempts to force Pyongyang to release the crew and ship.

“Good Games”—Challenges For The War-Gaming Community, Stuart H. Starr

Naval War College Review

In the opinion of numerous practitioners and observers, war gaming has reached a turning point. Today, a “good game” blends clear problem formulation, technical virtuosity, accurate data, scenario creativity, appropriate decision rules, and credible evaluation procedures.

Global 2000, Kenneth Watman

Naval War College Review

Modern information technology and current concepts for its use did not free the Global 2000 participants from the need for certain traditional constraints, at least not to the extent envisioned in theoretical discussions of network-centric operations. The problem remains how to capture the predicted advantages of information-rich environments.

War-Gaming Network-Centric Warfare, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

It is possible to design conventional games with a reasonable degree of validity, but to explore fully the needs of network-centric gaming we must go beyond traditional methods. The only way to game network-centric warfare is actually to create a network of players with shared awareness.