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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 …

Battle Of Surigao Strait, Richard Norton

Naval War College Review

The sprawling battle of Leyte Gulf was fought from 23 to 26 October 1944, and nearly seventy years later it still has the power both to fire the imagination and to provide enduring military lessons. As drama goes, the battle (or more pre- cisely, a series of engagements, each deserving a name of its own) is an ap- parently bottomless cornucopia of personalities, desperate gambles, and heroism, as well as of enough “what-ifs” to spawn a cottage industry of alternate histories. In at least one way, Leyte Gulf has similarities to Gettysburg. Both bat- tles have been written about so …

How The Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare, K.J. Delamer

Naval War College Review

“In either case, the helicopter has sig- nificantly changed the face of modern warfare. It has done so despite restric- tions placed on its performance by its inherent design features. And perhaps more than anything else, it has done so because of the brave, talented aircrews who flew the helicopter in the most in- tensely dangerous conditions of warfare that have ever been seen.” So concludes the final chapter of a new and timely book by noted aviation writer and retired U.S. Air Force colo- nel Walter Boyne. This volume revolves around two theses. The first is stated in the …

In My Time: A Personal And Political Memoir, Stephen F. Knott

Naval War College Review

As political memoirs go, Dick Cheney’s In My Time is arguably one of the more candid, in a genre that tends to fall into two categories—the remarkably bland and the overly fulsome. Cheney avoids both these pitfalls in a book that will not change the mind of a single Cheney hater or his small legion of admirers. Cheney was at the center of American politics for almost forty years, and long before he became the Darth Vader of American politics he had a reputation for being one of the ablest and most reform-minded members of the Repub- lican Party.

Just War On Terror? A Christian And Muslim Response, Timothy J. Demy

Naval War College Review

This edited volume provides fourteen essays on various aspects of combating terrorism and insurgencies from a just-war perspective. All the contributors, with the exception of Philip Bobbitt, an American, are from the United Kingdom. Contributors are prominent members of their respective faculties and are well-known within the fields of war and security studies. While the sub- title accentuates religious traditions with respect to the just-war tradition, the volume is not a dialogue between religious perspectives, nor is every chapter devoted to religious interpreta- tions. Rather, the book is a collection of essays, of which two are authored by practicing Muslim …

Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Review Essays: The Tip Of The Iceberg, Norman Friedman

Naval War College Review

This is at once a timely and somewhat disappointing book. The authors quote numerous Chinese writers as arguing that sea power is essential to a rising China. They also argue, as Mahan did, that any country as dependent on seabsorne trade as China must also be interested in sea power. These ideas may have been controversial when the authors began writing, but the recent appearance of the refitted Chinese aircraft carrier formerly known as Varyag is an indication that should be obvious to all. This is at once a timely and somewhat disappointing book. The authors quote numerous Chinese writers …

The Port Moresby–Solomons Operation And The Allied Reaction, 27 April–11 May 1942, Milan Vego

Naval War College Review

The ultimately unsuccessful Japanese attempt to capture Port Moresby in May 1942 is commonly referred to as the “battle of the Coral Sea.” Almost all fo- cus is usually given to the decisive tactical engagement between carrier forces. However, the Japanese effort was officially code-named Moresby Operation and was often called the “Port Moresby–Solomons operation.” In formal terms, it was on the Japanese side a major offensive and joint operation, planned and executed to achieve an op- erational objective—the capture of Port Moresby, on the Australian territory of New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea). For the Allies, in contrast, “the …

Seeking Balance, Swee Lean Collin Koh

Naval War College Review

Despite the widespread proliferation of studies on the major navies in Asia, first and foremost that of China, writings on the small navies of Asia—Southeast Asia in particular—have been few and far between. The slant toward those major navies is warranted by their influence on the regional na- val balance of power. However, it scarcely does justice to the small navies of Southeast Asia, a region of huge maritime geostrategic importance with po- tential security ramifications for wider Asian and global maritime security. Southeast Asia is also the scene of an interesting and serious buildup of sophis- ticated naval capabilities. …

The Republic Of Korea’S Counter-Asymmetric Strategy, Duk-Ki Kim

Naval War College Review

Since its provocations against Yeonpyeong Island on 23 November 2010, North Korea’s asymmetric threats have emerged as one of the most momentous security issues for the Republic of Korea (ROK).1 After bitter defeats in the First and Second Yeonpyeong Sea Battles, as well as in the Daechung Sea Battle of November 2009, North Korea recognized its disadvantage in symmetric surface-ship provocations. It resorted instead to new and unexpected tactics, utilizing its latest small submarine to torpedo ROKS Cheonan on 26 March 2010. Considered to be the North’s severest military provocation since the Ko- rean War armistice, the sinking of ROKS …

Beijing’S “Starter Carrier” And Future Steps, Andrew S. Erickson, Abraham M. Denmark, Gabriel Collins

Naval War College Review

Just as a newlywed couple wants a “starter home,” a new great power wants a “starter carrier.” China’s navy has finally realized its longtime dream of obtaining an aircraft carrier and sending it to sea. This is the first step in a long journey that will change China’s navy and how it relates to the world. At 5:40 AM local time on Wednesday, 10 August 2011, more than eighty years after the idea was originally proposed, China’s first carrier disappeared into the fog under tight security from Dalian harbor’s Xianglujiao Port, in northeast Liaoning Province, to begin sea trials in …

President’S Forum, John N. Christenson

Naval War College Review

THE OCEANS OF THE EARTH cover nearly three-quarters of the blue planet’s surface. They have long been the subject of reflection and study. At Tufts University’s Fletcher School the oceans are being examined as source, avenue, and arena: a source for foodstuffs and energy; an avenue for goods, people, and ideas; and an arena for struggle and warfare. This is a simple but elegant rubric for studying this complex environment, one that aligns well with the educational focus we have at the Naval War College. As students of the oceans, naval officers are keenly aware of the centuries of armed …

From The Editors, Pelham G. Boyer

Naval War College Review

In what must certainly count as the most newsworthy naval development of 2011, the People’s Republic of China obtained its first aircraft carrier. The as- yet-unnamed vessel—previously Varyag of the Ukrainian navy (and originally the Soviet navy)—which began sea trials in the Yellow Sea last August, clearly represents an important milestone in the ongoing modernization and expan- sion of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).

Should We Be Concerned About Data-Opolies?, Maurice Stucke

Scholarly Works

With the rise of a progressive antitrust movement, the power of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon is now topical. This article explores some of the potential harms from data-opolies. Data-opolies, in contrast to the earlier monopolies, are unlikely to exercise their power by charging higher prices to consumers. But this does not mean they are harmless. Data-opolies can raise other significant concerns, including less privacy, degraded quality, a transfer of wealth from consumers to data-opolies, less innovation and dynamic disruption in markets in which they dominate, and political and social concerns.

Data-opolies can also be more durable than some earlier …

Porter’S Bar: A Coastal Middle Woodland Burial Mound And Shell Midden In Northwest Florida, Kerri Knigge

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis should serve as a comprehensive site report for both Porter’s Bar (8Fr1) and Green Point (8Fr11) mounds in northwest Florida. These prehistoric burial mounds and their associated village shell midden are determined to have been constructed during two different time periods, Middle Woodland and Early Woodland, respectively. This is the first time that all materials and data have been described and compiled for both sites, despite the fact that they were both originally recorded over a century ago and described differently later by multiple researchers.

The mounds served as an important ceremonial center along Apalachicola Bay some 1500 …

Reflections On Reading, John E. Jackson

Naval War College Review

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Of Special Interest, Carnes Lord

Naval War College Review

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The War Below: The Story Of Three Submarines That Battled Japan, Beth F. Coye, James Scott

Naval War College Review

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Churchill And Seapower, Geoffrey Till, Christopher M. Bell

Naval War College Review

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State Of War: The Political Economy Of American Warfare 1945–2011, Sean Sullivan, Paul A. C. Koistinen

Naval War College Review

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Naval Power And Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns And New Theatres Of Naval Warfare, Peter M. Swartz, Bruce A. Elleman, S. C. M. Paine

Naval War College Review

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Fundamentals Of War Gaming, Jeff Shaw, Francis J. Mchugh

Naval War College Review

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An Amphibious Capability In Japan’S Self-Defense Force: Operationalizing Dynamic Defense, Justin Goldman

Naval War College Review

An amphibious capability would offer Japanese leaders new flexibility, especially in the increasingly volatile offshore islands zone—given improvements in equipment, doctrine, and especially interservice integration.

Maritime Deception And Concealment: Concepts For Defeating Wide-Area Oceanic Surveillance-Reconnaissance-Strike Networks, Jonathan F. Solomon

Naval War College Review

Deception and concealment can help mitigate the risks that an adversary might cripple U.S. forward maritime forces in a massive, war-opening strike, achieve in the first days or weeks some fait accompli, or inflict severe losses on maritime forces as they maneuver within a contested zone to retake the initiative.

Thucydides On Policy, Strategy, And War Termination, Karl Walling

Naval War College Review

The ancient historian and political theorist Thucydides supplies a microcosm of warfare, addressing the fundamental and recurring problems of strategy at all times and places—origins, objectives, and other strategic issues that those who wage war ignore at their peril. But we will never understand his work unless we try to understand him on his own terms.

Thucydides: Theorist Of War, Williamson Murray

Naval War College Review

Thucydides did not set out to be a theorist in his account of the Peloponnesian War. Rather, his analysis of the great war between Athens and Sparta helps to clarify not only the events of that war but also fundamental, theoretical truths about the nature and consequences of human conflict.

National Policy And The Post-Systemic Navy, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

If what happens overseas affects what happens here in North America, then the United States needs to have a voice and influence in overseas affairs. The Navy and the Marine Corps have served as the sources of that instrumentality on a day-to-day basis. How? How will they do so in the already emerging future?

From The Editors, Carnes Lord

Naval War College Review

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

Naval War College Review

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Summer 2013, The U.S Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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