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Set And Drift: Leadership And Strategy, Carnes Lord

Naval War College Review

Winston Churchill once said that most strategic failures in war are due to the “total absence of one directing mind and commanding willpower.” During World War II, Churchill was determined to be that one directing mind, taking for himself a new cabinet portfolio for defense as well as the office of prime min- ister. Difficult as it may be to resist the ideas of one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, there are many today who will be skeptical of such a claim.

Set And Drift: Naval Force In The New Century, Joseph A. Gattuso Jr., Lori Tanner

Naval War College Review

It is 1890.1 The United States is flexing its broad, young shoulders, strengthened by an infusion of new immigrants, new technologies, and by American political leadership that represents the growing nation’s outward-looking perspective. The United States desires to play on the world stage along with the great imperial nations. However, naval leadership has a different viewpoint. It is content with its small, coastal, commerce-raiding, Jeffersonian fleet. Then along comes a reticent, unlikable naval captain of middling reputation who captures the nation’s imagination with his plan for a navy that will do battle at sea upon the great world stage.

Transformation And The Navy’S Tough Choices Ahead, Ronald O'Rourke

Naval War College Review

Analyses have pointed to a “coming train wreck” between defense program goals and available re- sources; the fact is that the collision is already upon us. Fundamental transformation, its advocates argue, is a response that would produce, for a given amount of resources, a force more effective against future threats than would implementing today’s collection of programs.

Military Experimentation, Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.

Naval War College Review

The Pentagon cannot afford to “think rich,” and it cannot afford to proceed with a modernization program oriented to meeting only today’s challenges. Yet the Pentagon may be doing precisely that. It must determine the mix of systems required to operate effectively against future threats; experimentation provides an indispensable means for answering questions about those threats.

Network-Centric Warfare, Edward A. Smith Jr.

Naval War College Review

What is network-centric warfare? What does it bring to us? Why is it so critical to America’s future military power that we must give up other capabilities to buy it? A warfare-centered working con- cept of network-centric operations is needed. The measure of success will be the effect that net- working enables us to have on would-be enemies in peace and in war.

Strategic Trends, Paul Dibb

Naval War College Review

There are positive tendencies, including the resurgence of economic growth and the spread of de- mocracy. But there are a number of negative tendencies that must be of serious concern. The United States needs to develop more coherence and predictability in its Asia-Pacific security strat- egy, and it should listen more carefully to its allies and friends there.

Strategic Traditions For The Asia-Pacific Region, Stephen Peter Rosen

Naval War College Review

Tradition has both positive and negative implications. It may be valuable lessons learned, lessons paid for with blood, but tradition may also be habits of the last war that make it difficult to see and react to change. There is good reason to think that future conditions in the Asia-Pacific region will not be consistent with what the strategic traditions of the U.S. military tell us we can expect.

President’S Forum, Arthur K. Cebrowski

Naval War College Review

Tomorrow’s conflicts will present complex requirements, and many things will be required to ful- fill them. We need to pursue with great vigor the concept of network-centric operations and war- fare, and a set of initiatives that would be quite disruptive to an enemy. The rebalanced fleet of the future will require these kinds of characteristics.

Daily Eastern News: April 10, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

April

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Servant Learners: Short-Term Missions As An Effective Strategy, Abigail Chennells

Senior Honors Theses

Short-term missions (STM) is a phenomenon that is quickly growing; each year more and more teams are sent out from North America to locations across the globe to share the gospel and do work projects in another culture. However, there are some significant issues with the current execution of STM, ranging from its ineffectiveness in accomplishing helpful projects to its heavy financial cost to the potential negative impact on host communities. In order to push the impact of STM in a positive direction, there are two major shifts in the way it is carried out that must take place. First, …

Soldiersand Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap And Americannational Security, James Stavridis

Naval War College Review

If you intend to own only a single volume on the crucial question of civil-military relations in the United States, choose this book. It is a comprehensive (indeed, exhaustive) review of the literature and commentary surrounding this timely debate. (A synthesis appears as the lead article in this issue.) It addresses what former secretary of defense William Cohen described as a “chasm” in American society. The editors have assembled a wide variety of commentators who examine two fundamental questions: Are the American armed forces and the civilian sector drifting apart as the result of a lack of shared values and …

On Seas Of Glory: Heroic Men, Greatships, And Epic Battles Of The American Navy, Andrew G. Wilson

Naval War College Review

John Lehman, former secretary of the Navy and author of Command of the Seas (1988), has with this book produced a masterful outline of “the grandeur of the American naval tradition.” The truest examples of this “grandeur” are “best found in its people, fighting sailors, technical innovators and inspiring leaders.” From John Paul Jones and the Revolutionary War to the six-hundred-ship fleet of the Cold War, John Lehman brings us a wonderful episodic view of the U.S. Navy’s people and ships, and their collective contribution to the strength and character of the nation they have served.

The Navy Times Book Of Submarines: A Political, Social And Military History, Christopher Cooper

Naval War College Review

This historical book is a compilation of thousands of facts surrounding the evolutionary development of today’s modern submarine. In an effort to separate fiction from fact, Captain Harris (U.S. Navy, Ret.) debunks many commonly held myths that have been perpetuated in submarine lore.

We Come Unseen, Nigel West

Naval War College Review

Books about submarines are generally disapproved of, unless they are technical volumes describing the characteristics and performance of potentially hostile fleets. A couple of recent accounts of American operations have run into shallow water. For example, Roger Dunham was obliged to censor much of his Spy Sub (Naval Institute Press, 1996) and conceal the fact that he had served on the USS Halibut on classified projects, one of which was the discovery of the wreck of a Soviet submarine in the Pacific. Exercising discretion, Dunham called his boat Viperfish and never identified the K-219, the Soviet Golf II that went …

Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Review Essay, Bruce Elleman

Naval War College Review

At the end of the Cold War, the Soviet navy was eliminated almost overnight as the world’s second most powerful naval force. Russia’s Pacific fleet is now so poorly supplied and equipped that it rarely leaves port. This unprecedented reversal of fortune has created a maritime vacuum throughout East Asia, leaving a wide range of regional powers, including the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, and Japan, hoping to fill that vacuum.

President's Forum, Rodney P. Rempt

Naval War College Review

The Naval War College has two main missions: to educate future leaders and to help define the future Navy. These are, remarkably, the basic mis- sions for which the College was established over a century ago. The times have certainly changed, the technology of maritime warfare has improved, and the geopolitical landscape would hardly be recognizable to our founder, Stephen B. Luce. But the mission has remained constant—to be a force for change and to serve as the intellectual center of the Navy.

Our Special Correspondent, Geoffrey Wawro

Naval War College Review

Although the United States must think and deploy strategically in every hemisphere, it is here in its own that it confronts some of the greatest challenges to American peace and prosperity. Richly provided with energy, farmlands, potable water, and other natural resources, Latin Americans have nevertheless stumbled from one failed regime to another, often looking to fulfill the words of the real author of the Monroe Doctrine, John Quincy Ad- ams, who saw in 1823 a continent “stamped with arbitrary power and civil dissension,” far more likely to become “a domicile of despotism” than “a house of freedom.”

The U.S. Military And The Evolving Challenges In The Middle East, Anthony H. Cordesman

Naval War College Review

The Naval War College has two main missions: to educate future leaders and to help define the future Navy. These are, remarkably, the basic mis- sions for which the College was established over a century ago. The times have certainly changed, the technology of maritime warfare has improved, and the geopolitical landscape would hardly be recognizable to our founder, Stephen B. Luce. But the mission has remained constant—to be a force for change and to serve as the intellectual center of the Navy.

Thr Erosion Of Civilian Control Of The Military In The United States Today, Richard H. Kohn

Naval War College Review

In over thirty-five years as a military historian, I have come to have great respect for and trust in American military officers. The United States is truly blessed to have men and women of the highest character leading its youth and safeguarding its security. That fact makes the present subject all the more troubling and unpleasant, whether to write or read about it. However, the subject is crucial to the nation’s security and to its survival as a republic. I am speaking of a tear in the nation’s civil and political fabric; my hope is that by bringing it to …

Issue 1: Anti-Black Racism, Bio-Power, And Governmentality: Deconstructing The Suffering Of Black Families Involved With Child Welfare, Doret Phillips, Gordon Pon

Journal of Law and Social Policy

This article focuses on how colonialism, anti-Black racism and white supremacy are embodied by Ontario’s child welfare system in relation to narratives of suffering experienced by Black families involved with this sector. We discuss how these experiences are an embodiment of the Foucauldian concepts of bio-power and governmentality. Understanding this embodiment is crucial for deconstructing how anti-Black racism, colonialism, and white supremacy are manifested in the day-to-day policies and practices of child welfare. To explicate these policies and practices we discuss three inter-related factors: 1) the historical rise of the welfare state, 2) anti-Black racism, and 3) bio-power and governmentality.

Engaging Hispanic Science Learners Within California’S Central Valley: A Mixed Methods Study Of The Perceptions Of High School Teachers Relative To Advanced Placement Science Courses, David Menshew

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the engagement of Hispanic Advanced Placement science learners in California’s Central Valley as perceived by high school teachers.

Methodology: The mixed method study surveyed 20 Advanced Placement science teachers from the region of interest. Likert surveys were used to determine: 1) their perceptions of the engagement of Hispanic students by the AP Program, and 2) barriers presented by the AP Program. Quantitative results indicated teacher support for the AP Program and few barriers as currently administered. A focus group of 12 teachers recruited from the 20 surveyed provided qualitative …

Article And Graduation Prizes, Alberto R. Coll

Naval War College Review

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Books Received, Alberto R. Coll

Naval War College Review

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The Fifty Year War: Conflict And Strategy In The Cold War; Cold War At Sea: High-Seas Confrontation Between The United States And The Soviet Union, Andrew G. Wilson, David F. Winkler

Naval War College Review

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Civilians In The Path Of War, Johanna Mendelson Forman, Mark Grimsley, Clifford J. Rogers

Naval War College Review

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Nations In Transit 2001–2002: Civil Society, Democracy And Markets Ineast Central Europe And The Newly Independent States, Patrick Lueb, Adrian Karatnycky, A. Motyl, A. Schnetzer

Naval War College Review

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Brown-, Green- And Blue-Water Fleets: The Influence Of Geography Onnaval Warfare, 1861 To The Present, Richard H. Gimblett, Michael Lindberg, Daniel Todd

Naval War College Review

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What Does The World Want From America? International Perspectiveson U.S. Foreign Policy, James Miskel, Alexander T. J. Lennon

Naval War College Review

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The Threatening Storm: The United States And Iraq—The Crisis, The Strategy, And The Prospects After Saddam; Arabs At War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991, Richard Lacquement, Kenneth M. Pollack

Naval War College Review

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