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From The Med To The World, Patrick Hunt Mar 2018

From The Med To The World, Patrick Hunt

Naval War College Review

Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant, by Shelley Wachsmann; Homeric Seafaring, by Samuel Mark; Byzantine Warship vs Arab Warship, 7th–11th Centuries, by Angus Konstam


Jutland: Acrimony To Resolution, Holger Herwig Mar 2018

Jutland: Acrimony To Resolution, Holger Herwig

Naval War College Review

Jutland: The Naval Staff Appreciation, edited by William Schleihauf; The Jutland Scandal: The Truth about the First World War’s Greatest Sea Battle, by J. E. T. Harper and Sir Reginald Bacon; Jutland: The Unfinished Battle, by Nicholas Jellicoe


The U.S. Navy Won The Battle Of Jutland, David Kohnen, Nicholas Jellicoe, Nathaniel S. Sims Mar 2018

The U.S. Navy Won The Battle Of Jutland, David Kohnen, Nicholas Jellicoe, Nathaniel S. Sims

Naval War College Review

Over the course of the half-year from the battle of Jutland to the end of 1916, Williams S. Sims and his associates set the course that led to the U.S. Navy of the twenty-first century.


Wars And Rumours Of Wars: Japanese Plans To Invade The Philippines, 1593–1637, Stephen Turnbull Mar 2018

Wars And Rumours Of Wars: Japanese Plans To Invade The Philippines, 1593–1637, Stephen Turnbull

Naval War College Review

On three occasions between 1593 and 1637, Japan’s rulers gave serious consideration to sending military expeditions against the Spanish Philippines. Explaining why these plans were not put into effect sheds light on Japan’s military capabilities at the time, especially its lack of naval capacity.


A Thousand Splendid Guns: Chinese Ascms In Competitive Control, Alan Cummings Mar 2018

A Thousand Splendid Guns: Chinese Ascms In Competitive Control, Alan Cummings

Naval War College Review

Implementing distributed lethality, developing antiship cruise missile programs, and acquiring affordable small- to medium-sized surface combatants—constituting a revival of antisurface warfare capability from near zero—must be a priority for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific.


When Robots Rule The Waves?, Robert Sparrow, George Lucas Mar 2018

When Robots Rule The Waves?, Robert Sparrow, George Lucas

Naval War College Review

By virtue of the distinctive character of war at sea, a number of unique and complex ethical questions are likely to arise regarding the applications of autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles and unmanned surface vehicles.


Distributed Stovl Operations And Air-Mobility Support: Addressing The Mismatch Between Requirements And Capabilities, Robert C. Owen Mar 2018

Distributed Stovl Operations And Air-Mobility Support: Addressing The Mismatch Between Requirements And Capabilities, Robert C. Owen

Naval War College Review

A joint logistics approach based on U.S. Air Force air-mobility assets, especially if enhanced by a medium-sized tanker/transport aircraft, can offer significant advantages in the flexibility, sustainability, and safety of Marine distributed short-takeoff–vertical-landing operations, particularly in the face of sophisticated antiaccess/area-denial capabilities.


The Relationship Between Global Naval Engagement And Naval War-Fighting Posture, Robert C. Rubel Mar 2018

The Relationship Between Global Naval Engagement And Naval War-Fighting Posture, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

Decisions on fleet design should be informed by an understanding of the relationship between forward engagement and combat posture. Regarding these two functional elements of the Navy’s mission as either mutually exclusive or having a primary/collateral relationship is a recipe forstrategic error.


The Past Is Prologue, Jeffrey Harley Mar 2018

The Past Is Prologue, Jeffrey Harley

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.


The Evolution Of Modern U.S. Naval Strategy, Frank C. Pandolfe Usn Mar 2018

The Evolution Of Modern U.S. Naval Strategy, Frank C. Pandolfe Usn

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Autumn 2016 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Mar 2018

Autumn 2016 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Winter 2016 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Mar 2018

Winter 2016 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Taiwan In Transformation: Retrospect And Prospect,By Chun-Chieh Huang, Grant F. Rhode Mar 2018

Taiwan In Transformation: Retrospect And Prospect,By Chun-Chieh Huang, Grant F. Rhode

Naval War College Review

As a native Taiwanese deeply steeped in Chinese historical and philosophical sources, Chun-chieh Huang adds dimen- sions that are less emphasized in many other perceptive books on contemporary Taiwan. A prolific scholar of treatises on Confucian thought, Huang believes that Taiwan can bring much to contempo- rary Confucian thinking, since Taiwan interprets the world through a lens of contemporary and vibrant democracy— as opposed to China’s legacy of the Cultural Revolution and party control.


Westmoreland’S War: Reassessing American Strategy In Vietnam,By Gregory Daddis, William Thomas Allison Mar 2018

Westmoreland’S War: Reassessing American Strategy In Vietnam,By Gregory Daddis, William Thomas Allison

Naval War College Review

General William Westmoreland, the American commander of Military As- sistance Command Vietnam (MACV) from 1964 through 1968, remains one of the most contentious personalities of the Vietnam War, still the subject of intense debate among veterans and historians of the war. Prevalent still is the view that “Westy” could not see the forest for the trees, or vice versa, and disastrously lacked strategic vision and operational creativity owing to his parochial focus on employing Cold War “big unit” doctrine and attrition to combat an insurgent war of unification.


Law And War,Edited By Austin Serrat, Lawrence Douglas, And Martha Merrill Umphrey, John Merriam Mar 2018

Law And War,Edited By Austin Serrat, Lawrence Douglas, And Martha Merrill Umphrey, John Merriam

Naval War College Review

Law and War is a collection of five essays on the role of law in war offered as part of the Amherst Series in Law, Jurispru- dence, and Social Thought. What ties the essays together is their shared interest in “interrogating the assumption . . . that the insertion of law into war is necessar- ily a salutary achievement.” But this con- nection is often loose, and, while several of the essays have a great deal of indi- vidual merit, it is perhaps a weakness of the book that it lacks the degree of overall coherence that one might expect.


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

Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Undersea Lawfare: Can The U.S. Navy Fall Victim To This Asymmetric Warfare Threat?, Michael T. Palmer, J. Michael Johnson Mar 2018

Undersea Lawfare: Can The U.S. Navy Fall Victim To This Asymmetric Warfare Threat?, Michael T. Palmer, J. Michael Johnson

Naval War College Review

As the world’s only superpower, the United States of America finds itself challenged by adversaries who know they cannot confront it directly, toe to toe, on traditional battlefields, or on or under the world’s oceans. In their attempts to follow Sun Tzu’s instruction to “subdue the enemy without fighting,” potential adversaries of the United States continuously assess and probe American strengths and weaknesses to identify vulnerabilities for military, political, and industrial exploitation. It is not fully appreciated, assessed, or addressed by American policy makers and warfighters how vulnerable the U.S. military is to the threat of “lawfare,” both international and …


Systems Of Denial: Strategic Resistance To Military Innovation, Andrew Hill, Stephen Gerras Mar 2018

Systems Of Denial: Strategic Resistance To Military Innovation, Andrew Hill, Stephen Gerras

Naval War College Review

Successful organizations can be extraordinarily persistent and creative in denying the obvious, ignoring signals that suggest a need to challenge key strategic assumptions. The U.S. military has been the world’s unrivaled force for twenty-five years, even lacking a peer competitor in some domains naval operations, for example since 1943. A danger of such sustained success is that the military might come to view these strategic assumptions not as ideas requiring continual reassessment but as enduring laws.


Russian A2/Ad In The Eastern Mediterranean A Growing Risk, Jonathan Altman Mar 2018

Russian A2/Ad In The Eastern Mediterranean A Growing Risk, Jonathan Altman

Naval War College Review

Much has been written about the challenges posed by the Chinese adoption of what the U.S. military calls “A2/AD” (antiaccess/area-denial) in the western Pacific. Accordingly, the Pacific remains a key focus area for the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and more recently the Army, with the Navy promising to put 60 percent of its forces in that theater as part of the “Pacific pivot.” Yet as focus remains on the Pacific, the rest of the world is not standing still. This is exemplified in the eastern Mediterranean, where the Russians have begun laying the seeds to create an A2/AD zone …


The Evolution Of Interstate Security Crisis-Managementtheory And Practice In China, Alastair Iain Johnston Mar 2018

The Evolution Of Interstate Security Crisis-Managementtheory And Practice In China, Alastair Iain Johnston

Naval War College Review

As the frequency and scope of China’s paramilitary and military presence activities in the East and South China Seas have increased in the last few years, officials and analysts inside and outside China have worried more and more about the potential for military crises erupting between China and other actors. Given the perceived high stakes of many of these potential disputes—they touch on sovereignty, territorial integrity, national dignity, and development resources—some observers are concerned about the risks of escalation to military conflict, whether deliberate or accidental.1 Adding to the worries is uncertainty about China’s commitment to crisis management and escalation …


America’S Security Role In The South China Sea, Andrew S. Erickson Mar 2018

America’S Security Role In The South China Sea, Andrew S. Erickson

Naval War College Review

Allow me to share my assessment of the current situation in the South China Sea, followed by my recommendations concerning how the U.S. government should understand the situation and how it may best work to address it.


President’S Forum, P. Gardner Howe Iii Mar 2018

President’S Forum, P. Gardner Howe Iii

Naval War College Review

Throughout its history, the U.S. Naval War College has continually adapted its educational and research programs to accommodate the shifting international security environment in order to educate the Navy’s future leaders effectively. From the introduction of war gaming into the curriculum in the 1880s to the “Turner Revolution” in the mid-1970s, the College has responded to the needs of the service by updating its curriculum and teaching methods and by establishing programs and activities designed not only to keep pace with change but to anticipate it.


From The Editors, Robert Ayer Mar 2018

From The Editors, Robert Ayer

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The Pacific War And Contingent Victory: Why Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable, By Michaelw. Myers, Richard J. Norton Mar 2018

The Pacific War And Contingent Victory: Why Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable, By Michaelw. Myers, Richard J. Norton

Naval War College Review

The Pacific War and Contingent Victory is “an exercise in the elucidation of terms”—an exercise necessary to determine whether the Empire of Japan could have avoided defeat at the hands of the United States and its allies.


The General Vs. The President: Macarthur And Truman At The Brink Of Nuclear War, By H. W. Brands, David L. Teska Mar 2018

The General Vs. The President: Macarthur And Truman At The Brink Of Nuclear War, By H. W. Brands, David L. Teska

Naval War College Review

The relief of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur by President Harry S. Truman remains one of the most controversial and debated wartime command decisions made in the military history of the United States. By April 1951, Douglas MacArthur was at the peak of his game as a military leader.


The Warrior, Military Ethics And Contemporarywarfare: Achilles Goes Asymmetrical, By Paulinem. Kaurin, Thomas E. Creely Mar 2018

The Warrior, Military Ethics And Contemporarywarfare: Achilles Goes Asymmetrical, By Paulinem. Kaurin, Thomas E. Creely

Naval War College Review

Pauline Kaurin is associate professor of philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University, specializing in the just war tradition and military ethics. For this volume, Kaurin developed her research during time at the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy and in dialogue with academic colleagues in the International Society for Military Ethics.


The Role Of The Royal Navy In South America,1920–1970, By Jon Wise, Angus Ross Mar 2018

The Role Of The Royal Navy In South America,1920–1970, By Jon Wise, Angus Ross

Naval War College Review

Although arguably not a very enticing title for American naval professionals, this small, hardback book is nonetheless well worth their time. The author’s aim is to illustrate the contribution that the maritime service can make to a nation’s foreign policy in peacetime, and in particular to the health of its shipbuild- ing and defense exports.


Vietnam Narratives And The Collective Memoryof The Vietnam War, By John A. Wood, Breanne Robertson Mar 2018

Vietnam Narratives And The Collective Memoryof The Vietnam War, By John A. Wood, Breanne Robertson

Naval War College Review

More than forty years after the last U.S. combat troops departed Vietnam in 1973, the conflict looms large in Ameri- can popular culture and memory. Vivid depictions of guerrilla warfare, antiwar protests, and psychologically troubled veterans proliferate in print and film.


Warring Navies: India-Pakistan; Indian Navy’Srole In The Indo-Pak Wars, By Ranji Rai And Joseph Chacko, Patrick Bratton Mar 2018

Warring Navies: India-Pakistan; Indian Navy’Srole In The Indo-Pak Wars, By Ranji Rai And Joseph Chacko, Patrick Bratton

Naval War College Review

Ranji Rai and Joseph Chacko’s book,Warring Navies, is a welcome addition to the scant coverage of the naval history of South Asia.The authors area retired Indian navy commodore and a defense journalist, respectively, and the book draws heavily on Commodore Rai’s experiences in the navy. The book itself crosses the boundaries between memoirs and popular history, covering the history of the Indian navy’s operations from independence through theend of the Cold War.