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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.


Linguistic Political Ecology With The Ngäbe Indigenous People Of Panama, Ginés A. Sánchez Arias Apr 2018

Linguistic Political Ecology With The Ngäbe Indigenous People Of Panama, Ginés A. Sánchez Arias

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Indigenous communities from all corners of the globe live in uncertain times. From the vantage point of their “remote" lands, they undergo some of globalization’s most harmful externalities. Their homes become increasingly harder to maintain as extractive industries, development schemes, clandestine land grabs, and national bureaucracies encroach creating new colonial lands. First by assimilation, and then integration, these processes systematically undermine indigenous culture and autonomy. In place of such destructive coloniality, indigenous societies shelter unique ecological and linguistic knowledge that continues to serve their progress. This research applies lessons learned from studying with Ngäbe communities of western Panama, towards a …


Right-Sizing The People’S Liberation Army: Exploring The Contours Of China’S Military, Andrew S. Erickson, Roy Kamphausen, Andrew Scobell Apr 2018

Right-Sizing The People’S Liberation Army: Exploring The Contours Of China’S Military, Andrew S. Erickson, Roy Kamphausen, Andrew Scobell

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Asymmetric Warfare: Threat And Response In The 21st Century, Richard Norton, Rod Thornton Apr 2018

Asymmetric Warfare: Threat And Response In The 21st Century, Richard Norton, Rod Thornton

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Salvaging American Defense: The Challenge Of Strategic Overstretch, Peter Dombrowski, Anthony Cordesman Apr 2018

Salvaging American Defense: The Challenge Of Strategic Overstretch, Peter Dombrowski, Anthony Cordesman

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Eastern Exit—Rescue “. . . From The Sea”, Gary J. Ohls Apr 2018

Eastern Exit—Rescue “. . . From The Sea”, Gary J. Ohls

Naval War College Review

Operation EASTERN EXIT, the January 1991 evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, was an early and improvised, but highly successful, application of the expeditionary concepts devised to meet the emerging (dis)order of the post–Cold War world.


Fortuitous Endeavor—Intelligence And Deception In Operation Torch, John Patch Apr 2018

Fortuitous Endeavor—Intelligence And Deception In Operation Torch, John Patch

Naval War College Review

The Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942 combined detailed planning, aggressive signals intelligence, deception, operational security, and good luck to achieve success seldom repeated—and that cannot be in the future if the episode’s lessons are not heeded.


The U.S. Military’S “Maritime Strategy” And Future Transformation, Wang Baofu Apr 2018

The U.S. Military’S “Maritime Strategy” And Future Transformation, Wang Baofu

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The New U.S. Maritime Strategy Surfaces, Lu Rude Apr 2018

The New U.S. Maritime Strategy Surfaces, Lu Rude

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Assessing The New U.S. Maritime Strategy—A Window Into Chinese Thinking, Andrew S. Erickson Apr 2018

Assessing The New U.S. Maritime Strategy—A Window Into Chinese Thinking, Andrew S. Erickson

Naval War College Review

Chinese reactions to the U.S. Navy’s new maritime strategy provide a window into a larger strategic dynamic—not just in East Asia, where China is already developing as a great power, but globally, where it has the potential to play a major role as well. Three unofficial Chinese articles seem particularly useful for assessing those reactions.


Full Autumn 2008 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Apr 2018

Full Autumn 2008 Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


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

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

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


A Rage For Glory: The Life And Times Of Commodorestephen Decatur, Usn,, Wade G. Dudley Apr 2018

A Rage For Glory: The Life And Times Of Commodorestephen Decatur, Usn,, Wade G. Dudley

Naval War College Review

Accomplished historian and author James de Kay captures the essence of an age, as well as the spirit of a man, in his biography of Commodore Stephen Decatur. This finely written narrative, aimed at a general readership, may lack the scholarly apparatus expected of his- torical monographs, but it certainly does not lack the scholarship and analysis that is the hallmark of de Kay’s work. Yet if this book sometimes appears to be a cross between an action-thriller and a hagiography, there is a reason. Decatur’s active quest for fame and glory, as well as the deep sense of honor …


All The Factors Of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reevesand The Origins Of Carrier Airpower,, Chris Madsen Apr 2018

All The Factors Of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reevesand The Origins Of Carrier Airpower,, Chris Madsen

Naval War College Review

Admiral Joseph Reeves was an impor- tant influence on the development of American naval aviation during the interwar period, but like many other se- nior officers who served in peacetime, he has not received the attention he de- serves. Thomas Wildenberg, building upon his previous work on dive bomb- ing in the U.S. Navy prior to the Battle of Midway, strives to honor Admiral Reeves with a scholarly biography fo- cused on his professional life and contributions.


Making War, Thinking History,, Jan Van Tol Apr 2018

Making War, Thinking History,, Jan Van Tol

Naval War College Review

Jeffrey Record is professor of strategy and international security at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base. He is the author of four books and nu- merous monographs on U.S. military strategy and has extensive Capitol Hill experience, including service as a pro- fessional staffer for the Senate Armed Services Committee. This work assesses how the experiences of Munich and Vietnam influenced presidential decisions on the use of force in every administration from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. Both Munich and Vietnam are regularly invoked in current political debate in an attempt to justify a viewpoint, especially since the …


The Diffusion Of Military Technology And Ideas,, George H. Quester Apr 2018

The Diffusion Of Military Technology And Ideas,, George H. Quester

Naval War College Review

This book offers a rich collection of re- search papers on very important top- ics: the much discussed revolution in military affairs (RMA), and the less dis- cussed diffusions of new military tech- nology and the accompanying changes in military doctrine to other countries. The authors were carefully chosen ex- perts in history, political science, and sociology, who address the very impor- tant factors of national culture as they affect the application of new military technologies.


A Time Of Our Choosing: America’S War In Iraq, D. L. Teska Apr 2018

A Time Of Our Choosing: America’S War In Iraq, D. L. Teska

Naval War College Review

The late Washington Post publisher Philip Graham once said that journal- ism is the first draft of history. Todd S. Purdum’s A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq, is the first draft of the history of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Months before the Department of Defense made the controversial deci- sion to embed reporters within U.S. units, Purdum was in Iraq reporting the war.


Nato And The Former Yugoslavia:, Tom Fedyszyn Apr 2018

Nato And The Former Yugoslavia:, Tom Fedyszyn

Naval War College Review

As the world steps farther away from the Cold War, the evolving structure of the international system continues to fascinate informed citizens as well as professional scholars. In this work, Joyce Kaufman, professor of political science at Whittier College, contributes to the debate on the evolution and fu- ture of the Atlantic Alliance, particu- larly as the situation in the Balkans confronted a post–Cold War (and ex- panding) NATO. In detailing the events between the collapse of Soviet commu- nism (1990) and the attack on the twin towers (2001), the author makes a forceful case for the need for a …


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.


Race For The Decisive Weapon, James P. Levy Apr 2018

Race For The Decisive Weapon, James P. Levy

Naval War College Review

It is popularly understood that after the spectacular American victory at the battle of Midway the aircraft carrier reigned supreme; that war at sea was changed completely; and that the presence of America’s two surviving carriers after the sinking of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo’s four flattops forced the cancellation of the Midway invasion and the retreat of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s eleven battleships, sixteen cruisers, and fifty-three destroyers from the Central Pacific.


Midway, Thomas Wildenberg Apr 2018

Midway, Thomas Wildenberg

Naval War College Review

Six decades after the spectacular American victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy’s First Air Fleet, the reasons behind the U.S. Navy’s success at the battle of Midway are still not fully understood. Though the details of this famous battle continue to be argued in the pages of scholarly jour- nals, the critical role of doctrine has not been properly analyzed.1 Yet it was better doctrine that ultimately led to the American victory once the forces were engaged, a victory that changed the course of war in the Pacific.


Hospital Ships In The War On Terror, Richard J. Grunawalt Apr 2018

Hospital Ships In The War On Terror, Richard J. Grunawalt

Naval War College Review

Employment of military hospital ships in support of the war on terror is militarily, politically, and morally appropriate. White ships adorned with the red cross or red crescent are internationally recognized as protected platforms engaged exclusively in the care and treatment of the casualties of war or the victims of disaster, whether natural or manmade. Despite the humanity of their mission, outdated rules of conventional and customary international law, designed for a bygone era, hamper their effectiveness and imperil their safety.


The Mosquito Can Be More Dangerous Than The Mortar Round, Arthur M. Smith, Craig Hooper Apr 2018

The Mosquito Can Be More Dangerous Than The Mortar Round, Arthur M. Smith, Craig Hooper

Naval War College Review

These words, penned in 1943 by the commander in chief of British forces in Burma during World War II, underline the reality that losses to malaria and other preventable diseases among Allied forces operating in the China-Burma- India theater far exceeded the number of casualties inflicted by enemy action.1 Today, as the global war on terrorism evolves, a similar failure to appreciate noncombat environmental threats—including mosquitoes and other disease- carrying insect vectors—will once again degrade combat effectiveness of deployed forces.


From Conscripts To Volunteers, Cindy Williams Apr 2018

From Conscripts To Volunteers, Cindy Williams

Naval War College Review

Since the Cold War ended, twelve of NATO’s twenty-six member states have suspended compulsory military service or announced plans to phase it out, thus joining the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg in the family of nations with all-volunteer armed forces (AVFs). Most of NATO’s other members are deeply reducing the number of conscripts they call up each year, relying increasingly on volunteers to fill their military ranks.