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Democratization In Africa: Progress And Retreat, Richard Norton Mar 2018

Democratization In Africa: Progress And Retreat, Richard Norton

Naval War College Review

In some ways, publishing a book that purports to capture contemporary African political trends, particularly involving the “progress of democracy,” faces the same basic problem as do books attempting to explain state-of- the-art computers. Both information streams are now flowing so quickly that the truth you write about today may be very different from that of tomorrow. In fact, the African scholar has even harder going than his information-systems contemporary, because unlike computer technology, the course of democracy in Africa frequently changes direction and from time to time even reverses itself. The editors of Democratization in Africa: Progress and Retreat …


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

Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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The Navy’S Moral Compass, Mark F. Light Mar 2018

The Navy’S Moral Compass, Mark F. Light

Naval War College Review

The U.S. Navy has an integrity problem in the ranks of its commanding of- ficers (COs). Consider these headlines: “Cruiser CO Relieved for ‘Cruelty.’”1 “CO Fired, Charged with Solicitation.”2 “CO of Attack Sub Fired for ‘Drunken- ness.’” These are just a few cases in a recent deluge of early reliefs of “skippers.” In 2010, twenty-three Navy COs were relieved of command and “detached for cause,” an enormous increase over previous years. The trend continues: twenty- one commanding officers were fired in 2011 as of the end of October.4 Even more worrisome is the fact that a large and increasing percentage …


Phase Zero, Scott D. Mcdonald, Brock Jones, Jason M. Frazee Mar 2018

Phase Zero, Scott D. Mcdonald, Brock Jones, Jason M. Frazee

Naval War College Review

In October 2006 General Charles Wald, Deputy Commander U.S. European Com- mand, brought “Phase Zero” into the joint lexicon with the publication of an article, “The Phase Zero Campaign.”1 Over the last five years the concept of taking coordinated action in peacetime to affect the strategic environment has becomewidely accepted and is now integrated into theater campaign plans. These activi- ties focus on building capacity of partners and influencing potential adversaries to avoid war. In contrast, Chinese strategic culture has encouraged taking actions to defeat an enemy prior to the onset of hostilities for two and a half millennia.


China’S Aerospace Power Trajectory In The Near Seas, Daniel J. Kostecka Mar 2018

China’S Aerospace Power Trajectory In The Near Seas, Daniel J. Kostecka

Naval War College Review

Air and aerospace power has been fundamental for defending China’s “near seas”—encompassing the Bohai Gulf, the Yellow Sea, and the East and South China Seas—since the founding of the People’s Republic. While air and naval operations did not play a significant role in the Chinese Civil War, which was won by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the victorious Communist forces were threatened immediately by hostile air and naval forces from the maritime sphere.


Learning From Lebanon, Benjamin S. Lambeth Mar 2018

Learning From Lebanon, Benjamin S. Lambeth

Naval War College Review

From 12 July until 15 August 2006, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) waged a thirty-four-day war against the Iranian terrorist proxy organization Hezbollah in response to a well-planned raid by a team of Hezbollah combatants from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. That raid resulted in the abduction of two IDF soldiers, who had then been taken back into Lebanon for use as hostages. Code-named Operation change of direction, the greatly escalated counteroffensive that the raid prompted has since been widely regarded as the IDF’s most inconclusive combat performance in Israel’s history.


The Aegis Bmd Global Enterprise, Brad Hicks, George Galdorisi, Scott C. Truver Mar 2018

The Aegis Bmd Global Enterprise, Brad Hicks, George Galdorisi, Scott C. Truver

Naval War College Review

For more than three decades, beginning soon after the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off against each other. The concept of “mutual assured destruction”—MAD, the U.S. threat of massive retaliation to a Soviet first strike—became America’s Cold War de facto strategic defense policy. In March 1983, however, President Ronald Reagan asked whether ballistic missiles could be destroyed before they reached the United States or its allies, thus catalyzing efforts for a national ballistic-missile-defense program that would undermine the need for MAD.


The New Normalcy, Robert B. Watts Mar 2018

The New Normalcy, Robert B. Watts

Naval War College Review

In September 1994, the Caribbean nation of Haiti burst into political unrest that drove twenty-six thousand migrants out to sea on board overcrowded and unseaworthy craft in an unprecedented mass migration to the United States. Several months later, over thirty thousand Cubans followed suit, attempting to reach the mainland on literally anything that could float. On 31 August 2005, a “weapon of mass destruction” in the form of a category-five hurricane exploded in the Gulf coast city of New Orleans, killing over 1,300 citizens and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands. Finally, on 20 April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon …


Naval Operations, Wayne P. Hughes Mar 2018

Naval Operations, Wayne P. Hughes

Naval War College Review

Today’s American navy writes prolifically about maritime strategies but has not devoted equal attention to campaign plans or analysis that tests the strategies’ viability. We illustrate herein how the operational—or campaign—level links policy and strategy to the tactical and technological elements of war at sea. First, we relate how the U.S. Navy reluctantly came to accept the existence of an operational level of warfare but having done so will find it useful. Second, we de- scribe important properties of naval operations in terms of constants, trends, and variables in warfare at and from the sea. Third, we demonstrate how operational- …


Reflections On The Stockdale Legacy, Martin L. Cook Mar 2018

Reflections On The Stockdale Legacy, Martin L. Cook

Naval War College Review

It is a great pleasure and an honor to be invited to deliver this year’s Stockdale Lecture. When I consider those who have preceded me in giving this annual lecture, I am truly humbled to be added to that roster. I am also honored to hold an academic chair at the Naval War College that bears Admiral Stockdale’s name, so it is especially fitting that I offer some reflections on what my chair’s namesake means to me, but more importantly for the Navy.


President’S Forum, John N. Christenson Mar 2018

President’S Forum, John N. Christenson

Naval War College Review

I have been President for all of a year now, and what a wonderful year it has been. They say the best time for war colleges is after wars have ended and when budgets are headed downward. It certainly feels true in Newport. There is an urgency to innovate. Under the leadership of Fleet Forces Command, the Navy and Marine Corps “got the band back together” and executed an ambitious amphibious exercise, bold Alligator. The last issue of the Naval War College Review had a superb article by our Professor Don Chisholm entitled “A Remarkable Military Feat: The Hungnam Redeployment, …


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

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

Naval War College Review

Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale holds a unique position in the roster of dis- tinguished American naval officers of the last century. In “Reflections on the Stockdale Legacy,” Martin L. Cook, current holder of the Stockdale Chair of Professional Military Ethics at the Naval War College, vividly recalls the extraor- dinary moral courage and leadership displayed by Stockdale during his nearly eight years of captivity in a North Vietnamese prison camp.


Strategic Insights: Making Good On The Nss And Nds: Competing With Russia In Europe And Beyond, John R. Deni Mar 2018

Strategic Insights: Making Good On The Nss And Nds: Competing With Russia In Europe And Beyond, John R. Deni

Articles & Editorials

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Trolling Pathologies, Hal Berghel Mar 2018

Trolling Pathologies, Hal Berghel

Computer Science Faculty Research

The netizen watch phrase is: don't feed the trolls. A better guide would be: learn to recognize the trolls.


Cultural Heritage, Ethics And The Military, Timothy J. Demy, Peter G. Stone Mar 2018

Cultural Heritage, Ethics And The Military, Timothy J. Demy, Peter G. Stone

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Insurgents, Raiders, And Bandits: How Masters Of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World, Frederick H. Black Jr., John Arquilla Mar 2018

Insurgents, Raiders, And Bandits: How Masters Of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World, Frederick H. Black Jr., John Arquilla

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


America’S Challenge: Engaging A Rising China In The Twenty-First Century, Lyle Goldstein, Michael D. Swaine Mar 2018

America’S Challenge: Engaging A Rising China In The Twenty-First Century, Lyle Goldstein, Michael D. Swaine

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation Of China, Grant F. Rhode, Ezra F. Vogel Mar 2018

Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation Of China, Grant F. Rhode, Ezra F. Vogel

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The Perfect Wreck—“Old Ironsides” And Hms Java: A Story Of 1812, Phillip S. Meilinger, Steven Maffeo Mar 2018

The Perfect Wreck—“Old Ironsides” And Hms Java: A Story Of 1812, Phillip S. Meilinger, Steven Maffeo

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The South African Navy And African Maritime Security, Deane-Peter Baker Mar 2018

The South African Navy And African Maritime Security, Deane-Peter Baker

Naval War College Review

History, budgetary constraints, and national policy choices have left the South African Navy unable to contribute substantially to the region’s maritime security. There is hope for change, however, and a possible way forward.


A Remarkable Military Feat: The Hungnam Redeployment, December 1950, Donald Chisholm Mar 2018

A Remarkable Military Feat: The Hungnam Redeployment, December 1950, Donald Chisholm

Naval War College Review

The requirement for amphibious withdrawal does not come along often, but when it does, there is little better guidance than how it was done in December 1950 in Korea—when it had to be done on short notice, on a large scale, and under fire.


American Civil-Military Relations: Samuel P. Huntington And The Political Dimensions Of Military Professionalism, Dayne E. Nix Phd Mar 2018

American Civil-Military Relations: Samuel P. Huntington And The Political Dimensions Of Military Professionalism, Dayne E. Nix Phd

Naval War College Review

Huntington held that the American constitutional system inevitably draws military leaders into the political process. Has the result been a “troubled quality” in American civil-military relations or proof of the vitality of the constitutional system?


What Military Officers Need To Know About Civil-Military Relations, Mackubin Thomas Owens Mar 2018

What Military Officers Need To Know About Civil-Military Relations, Mackubin Thomas Owens

Naval War College Review

How informed are civilian leaders when they choose to commit the military instrument? How well does the prevailing pattern of civil-military relations enable the integration of divergent and even contradictory views? Does this pattern ensure a practical military strategy that properly serves the ends of national policy?


Taking Mines Seriously: Mine Warfare In China’S Near Seas, Scott C. Truver Mar 2018

Taking Mines Seriously: Mine Warfare In China’S Near Seas, Scott C. Truver

Naval War College Review

China has a large, growing, and modernizing capability for naval mines, one that could greatly hinder U.S. operations in any Taiwan scenario. China’s mine-countermeasures capacity is less robust— but so, unfortunately, is the corresponding offensive mining capacity of the United States.


Networking The Global Maritime Partnership, Stephanie Hszieh, George Galdorisi, Terry Mckearney, Darren Sutton Mar 2018

Networking The Global Maritime Partnership, Stephanie Hszieh, George Galdorisi, Terry Mckearney, Darren Sutton

Naval War College Review

The difficulties of multinational naval networking are greater today, and require solutions more urgently, than ever. The work of a five-nation technical cooperation program offers a promising model for addressing them effectively.


President's Forum, John N. Christenson Mar 2018

President's Forum, John N. Christenson

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


From The Editors, Carnes Lord Mar 2018

From The Editors, Carnes Lord

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Spring 2012 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Mar 2018

Spring 2012 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Winter 2013 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Mar 2018

Winter 2013 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Reading, John E. Jackson Mar 2018

Reflections On Reading, John E. Jackson

Naval War College Review

This is the land of the free in more ways than one! One dictionary definition of the word “free” is “enjoying personal rights or liberty.” America is known as the land of the free, and the nation’s military forces remain vigilant to maintain this freedom. But another meaning of “free” is “at no charge or no cost.” A basic tenet of the CNO’s Navy Professional Reading Pro- gram (NPRP) is that books should be made available for free to sailors through- out the fleet. Over 1,200 lending libraries of NPRP books have been established on board ships, in squadrons, and …