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Some Form Of Punishment: Penalizing Women For Abortion, Mary Ziegler

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

In 2016, Donald Trump ignited a political firestorm when he suggested that women should be punished for having abortions. Although he backtracked, Trump’s misstep launched a debate about whether women have been or should be punished for having abortions. At the same time, Trump’s comments revealed that punishing women has become far more than an abstraction. In 2016, Indiana resident Purvi Patel became just the most recent visible example when she was sentenced to twenty years for feticide and child neglect for inducing an abortion.

But in spite of the furor created by Trump’s comment and Patel’s conviction, the history …

The 2016 Voting Wars: From Bad To Worse, Richard L. Hasen

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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The Geopolitics Of Canadian Defense White Papers: Lofty Rhetoric And Limited Results, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

As the United States northern neighbor, Canada serves as a NATO ally and a strategic partner with Washington through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Canadian forces have fought honorably and bravely in concert with American forces in many wars. Canada's government, however, has been less consistent in promoting a credible vision of Canadian national security policy and geopolitical interests in its defense white papers. These documents have often contained idealistic rhetoric about adhering to a rules-based international order and defending freedom. In reality, Canadian governments of varying political parties have consistently failed to provide the sustained funding and …

Winter 2014 Review, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Turning The Tide: The Battles Of Coral Sea And Midway, Jon Scott Logel

Naval War College Review

The latest volume of the Britannia Naval Histories of World War II revisits the Royal Navy’s official histories of two pivotal naval battles. Taken from the previously classified battle sum- maries, numbers 45 and 46, this newly printed edition is a valuable aid to the study of two groundbreak- ing carrier battles in the Pacific War.

George F. Kennan: An American Life, John B. Hattendorf

Naval War College Review

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2012, as well as a number of other awards, John Lewis Gaddis’s study of George F. Kennan (1904–2005) has already firmly established itself as the fundamental scholarly biography for the Cold War period in American history. Gaddis began work on this biography in 1981, not long after he had spent a two- year period as visiting professor of strat- egy and policy at the Naval War College. At Newport in those days, he was already admired for his first book, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 (Columbia …

Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Strength In Numbers: The Remarkable Potential Of (Really) Small Combatants, Jimmy Drennan

Naval War College Review

You are a tactical commander tasked with a mission to seek out and destroy one of the enemy’s premier capital ships in his home waters. You have two potential striking forces at your disposal: a world-class surface combatant of your own with a 99 percent probability of mission success (Ps = 0.99) or a squadron of eight in- dependently operating, missile-carrying small combatants, each with a chance of successfully completing the mission no better than a coin flip (Ps = 0.5). Do you go with the almost sure thing and choose to send in your large combatant?

“Winning” The Pacific War: The Masterful Strategy Of Commander Minoru Genda, Angelo N. Caravaggio

Naval War College Review

Criticisms leveled at the Japanese for their “ill conceived” or “poorly planned” attack at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 have failed to consider the true depth of vision and professional intellect of its principal architect, Commander Minoru Genda.1 Charges of failure to execute follow-on attacks against the harbor facilities, if any such attacks were planned at all, or to exploit the immediate advantages created in the Central Pacific after the attack are commonly made by both academic and professional military scholars. Genda has suffered the brunt of this criticism. But in fact Genda’s plans were neither ill conceived nor …

Kamikazes: The Soviet Legacy, Maksim Y. Tokarev

Naval War College Review

Throughout history, despite the influence of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s concepts, continental European and Asian navies have had a simple choice to make either to create a balanced fleet to engage another balanced fleet at sea and defeat it in one or more “decisive battles” or to take an “asymmetrical approach,” creating an “unbalanced” navy, able to prevent the enemy from achieving sea control and to keep one’s own vital sea lines of communication (SLOCs), if one has any, untouched by the enemy’s naval forces.

The Idea Of A “Fleet In Being” In Historical Perspective, John B. Hattendorf

Naval War College Review

The phrase “fleet in being” is one of those troublesome terms that naval historians and strategists have tended to use in a range of different meanings. The term first appeared in reference to the naval battle off Beachy Head in 1690, during the Nine Years’ War, as part of an excuse that Admiral Arthur Herbert, first Earl of Torrington, used to explain his reluctance to engage the French fleet in that battle.

Your Boss, Players, And Sponsor: The Three Witches Of War Gaming, Stephen Downes-Martin

Naval War College Review

In national-security war gaming there are three classes of senior stakeholders whom I call “the three witches”—critical to the success of a game but with the power to affect negatively its quality. These comprise, first, the war-game director’s superior and chain of command; second, the senior players within each game cell; and third, the sponsor of the game and that officer’s chain of command. Each of these three stakeholders frequently attempts to influence the design of the war game, even during play itself. For two reasons, such attempts amount to inappropriate interference.

Trends In Modern War Gaming: The Art Of Conversation, Hank J. Brightman, Melissa K. Dewey

Naval War College Review

Lieutenant William McCarty Little—a war-gaming visionary—was truly a man ahead of his time.1 Although physically sight impaired and medically retired from active naval service, he opted to use his ideational vision and keen mind to support the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island, during its first few years of operation after its founding in 1884. Initially an unpaid volunteer, he was appointed in 1887 as a member of the faculty, where he developed two-sided war gaming at the College—a construct that is still in use at the state-of-the-art facility that today bears his name.

President’S Forum, Walter E. Carter Jr.

Naval War College Review

The Naval War College is a multifaceted joint military academic institution, in support of the naval profession, composed of resident education for U.S. and international officers and focused on maritime research, regional studies, distance education, war gaming, and education/ programs at the operational level of war. Each of these intricate areas has unique programs and initiatives, but their common underlying theme is their ability to educate our future leaders and to teach them to think strategically and operationally. Educating leaders is conducted not only at the War College but also at our off-site locations around the country, and the research …

From The Editors, Pelham G. Boyer

Naval War College Review

One of the four key missions assigned the Naval War College has long been the education of future leaders. In 2007, the College of Operational and Strategic Leadership (COSL ) was established as a component of the College to sharpen the focus of its educational activities in direct support of the fleet. In our feature, after these notes, Rear Admiral James Kelly, USN (Ret.), the current dean of COSL , provides an account of what may prove to be the most important initiative undertaken in recent years to review, align, and strengthen the policies and processes by which the Navy …

Underdogs: The Making Of The Modern Marine Corps, William A. Taylor, Aaron B. O’Connell

Naval War College Review

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America’S U-Boats: Terror Trophies Of World War I, William F. Bundy, Chris Dubbs

Naval War College Review

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Against The Tide: Rickover’S Leadership Principles And The Rise Of The Nuclear Navy, Richard J. Norton, Dave Oliver

Naval War College Review

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Post-War Japan As A Sea Power: Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience And The Making Of A Navy, Carlos Rosende, John Bradford, Alessio Patalano

Naval War College Review

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Fighting The Great War At Sea: Strategy, Tactics And Technology, Angus Ross, Norman Friedman

Naval War College Review

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Torpedo: Inventing The Military-Industrial Complex In The United States And Great Britain, John T. Kuehn, Katherine Epstein

Naval War College Review

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The Battle For Mozambique: The Frelimo-Renamo Struggle, 1977–1992, Roger H. Ducey, Stephen A. Emerson

Naval War College Review

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Morality And War: Can War Be Just In The Twenty-First Century?, Joseph M. Hatfield, David Fisher

Naval War College Review

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No End Save Victory: How Fdr Led The Nation Into War, Douglas Peifer, David Kaiser

Naval War College Review

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21st Century Sims: Innovation, Education, And Leadership For The Modern Era, Yvonne R. Masakowski, Benjamin F. Armstrong

Naval War College Review

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Research & Debate: The New Young Turks, Benjamin F. Armstrong

Naval War College Review

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Fernando Oliveira’S Art Of War At Sea (1555): A Pioneering Treatise On Naval Strategy, Luis Nuno Sardinha Monteiro

Naval War College Review

Although written more than 450 years ago, Art of War at Sea is a treatise that was ahead of its time, establishing in part the basis of modern naval strategy. Yet it has remained in obscurity, as it was never translated from sixteenth-century Portuguese.

A General Review Of The History Of China’S Sea-Power Theory Development, Zhang Wei, Shazeda Ahmed

Naval War College Review

Chinese sea power, writes an officer of the People’s Liberation Army Navy, must have Chinese characteristics and not follow the path that Western powers took to maritime hegemony.

China’S Aircraft Carrier Program: Drivers, Developments, Implications, Andrew Scobell, Michael Mcmahon, Cortez A. Cooper Iii

Naval War College Review

China’s carrier program will not fundamentally transform the balance of military power in the western Pacific. But it does signal both China’s unmistakable intent to project military power beyond the nation’s “near seas” and its aspirations to become a global naval power.

Connecting The Dots: Capital Ships, The Littoral, Command Of The Sea, And The World Order, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

The geopolitical competitors of the United States are seeking ways to nullify the American capability to influence and intervene that the aircraft carrier confers. Understanding the linkages helps us refine and enhance the debate about what to do.