Recently added articles from Naval War College Review:
FROM THE EDITORS
Jan 01, 2009; ... Senator Barack Obama's election in November as the next president of the United States raises many questions about the future direction of American foreign and national security policy. None is more important than the question whether the Obama presidency will bring about a significant course ...
The Naval War College at 125: Un Tour d'Horizon
Jan 01, 2009; ... BY THE TIME THIS ISSUE of the Naval War College Review is distributed, myoid friend and one of the nation's most brilliant and capable naval officers will be at the desk where I have written commentaries for sixteen previous issues. I am sure that the Naval War College Press will have great ...
ASIA IN THE DEBATE ON AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY
Jan 01, 2009; ... The United States faces multiple national security challenges, but in the longer sweep of history it is our response to the rise of Chinese power that may have the greatest significance. Over the previous two centuries the Anglo-American-led neoliberal order faced three rising powers. Great ...
THINKING THROUGH U.S. STRATEGIC OPTIONS FOR AFRICA
Jan 01, 2009; ... For the past decade, much has been debated and written about U.S. security interests in Africa. The George W Bush administration has demonstrated a heightened awareness of Africa's importance to American geopolitical and economic interests as well as sensitivity to the continent's humanitarian ...
THE GLOBAL FLEET STATION
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Powerful Tool for Preventing Conflict The October 2007 initial deployment of the Africa Partnership Station (APS) to the Gulf of Guinea and the coincident rollout of A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower signaled a strong American commitment to leveraging U.S. sea power to ...
THE U.S. NAVY: Into Africa
Jan 01, 2009; ... Although Africa has long been a low strategic priority for the United States, Washington now has a sharp and pronounced strategic interest in protecting access to rich reserves of sub-Saharan oil and gas, mainly in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guinea, as part of its drive to reduce dependence on ...
U.S. NAVY SURFACE BATTLE DOCTRINE AND VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC
Jan 01, 2009; ... The basic strategic problems confronting the U.S. Navy during the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s were how to move a large fleet across the Pacific, absorb or avoid Japanese attritional attacks, seize forward bases for further operations, and retain sufficient fighting strength to defeat ...
LEARNING THE HARD WAY: Force Protection 1983-2000
Jan 01, 2009; ... Since the attack on Khobar Towers in June 1996, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant improvements in protecting its service members, mainly in deterring, disrupting and mirígating terrorist attacks on installations. The attack on USS Cole (DDG 67), in the port of Aden, Yemen, on ...
THROUGH A MIRROR DARKLY: The Face of Future War, 1871-2005
Jan 01, 2009; ... Trying to predict the nature of future wars is nothing new. Given the stakes, it is not surprising that efforts to pierce the barrier of warfare's event horizon have long occupied security professionals. Accordingly, attempts to identify future enemies, theaters, tactics, and technologies have ...
THE ESSENTIAL AFRICA READER
Jan 01, 2009; ... Morris, Donald R. The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. 650pp. $25.15 Moorehead, Alan. The White Nile. New York: Harper and Row, 1960. 448pp. $14.95 Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Af rica: White Man's Conquest ...
WHAT IS THE KEY TO VICTORY?
Jan 01, 2009; ... WHAT IS THE KEY TO VICTORY? Desch, Michael C. Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fattacy of Democratic Triumphalism. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2008. 232pp. $45 The notion that "democracies don't fight one another" is well known, but recently some scholars have made a ...
Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
Jan 01, 2009; ... Doyle, Michael. Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2008. 200pp. $24.95 Even before the United States and its allies embarked on war in Iraq in 2003, the question of whether it is acceptable to strike enemies without ...
Strategic Studies: A Reader
Jan 01, 2009; ... Mahnken, Thomas G., and Ioseph A. Maiolo, eds. Strategic Studies: A Reader. New York Routledge, 2008. 464pp. $49.95 Tom Mahnken and Joseph Maiolo will not be unfamiliar to readers of the Naval War College Review or to students of strategy and policy. Mahnken, a former professor at the ...
Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command
Jan 01, 2009; ... Stavridis, lames. Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2008. 224pp. $22.95 The politically correct aspiration for all surface warfare officers is to attain to command at sea. Realistically, these officers cannot begin to comprehend all its ...
Entering the Dragon's Lair: Chinese Antiaccess Strategies and Their Implications for the United States
Jan 01, 2009; ... Cliff, Roger, et al. Entering the Dragon's Lair: Chinese Antiaccess Strategies and Their Implications for the United States. Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 2007. 154pp. $27.50 This study has already attracted widespread attention from the policy community and media, for good reason. The ...
Sea Lanes and Pipelines: Energy Security in Asia
Jan 01, 2009; ... Cole, Bernard D. Sea Lanes and Pipelines: Energy Security in Asia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2008. 280pp. $75 This book, written by a retired Navy captain and professor of international history at the National War College, provides an up-to-date summary of the movement of energy ...
Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East/Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence
Jan 01, 2009; ... Lawrence, Quii. Invisible Nation: How ßie Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East New York Walker, 2008. 288pp. $25.95 Marcus, Aliza. Blood and Belief. The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2007. 368pp. $35 While ...
Iran Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country/The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
Jan 01, 2009; ... Ebadi, Shirin. Iran Awakening. One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country. New York: Random House, 2007. 256pp. $14.95 Nasr, Vali. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 240pp. $14.95 Since the 1979 Islamic ...
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
Jan 01, 2009; ... Crile, George. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times. New York: Grove, 2004. 560pp. $14.95 A longtime best seller in its tenth printing, this important book received a boost in December 2007 ...
The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dugard, Martin. The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York: Little, Brown, 2008. 446pp. $29.99 The English novelist C.S. Forester once observed, concerning soldiers in war, that it was a "coincidence that when destiny had so much to do she ...