Naval War College Review articles from March 2007

Naval War College Review archives from March 2007

From the editors.
March 22, 2007... Over the last nine months or so, the Navy has invested significant resources in developing a new maritime strategy suited to the realities of the contemporary security environment. Many elements of the Navy and Navy-affiliated organizations...

President's forum.(naval strategy)
March 22, 2007... An International Forum for Operational and Strategic Leadership AS THE NATION CONFRONTS a dramatically altered strategic and political environment, the Naval War College has been thrust into a position of increased prominence on the Navy's...

Notes toward a new maritime strategy.
March 22, 2007... Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chief of Naval Operations, has charged us with thinking about how to redefine sea power in this era of hyperglobalization. He asked us to think of a new vocabulary, a new frame of reference, to consider what will...

A bimodal force for the national maritime strategy.(Company overview)
March 22, 2007... While still serving in my first ship, I read a twelve-page article in the Naval Institute Proceedings entitled National Policy and the Transoceanic Navy." Written by Samuel P. Huntington, this durable and popular essay has stuck with me ever...

Carving up the east China Sea.
March 22, 2007... As the primitive society pushed ahead and the population of clan groups increased, the balance between the material requirements of the clan groups and the total quantity of the natural materials for living in their localities was upset......

China and United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa.(Company overview)
March 22, 2007... China comes to Africa in the 21st century with not only a need for natural resources but also with the financial resources and political influence to pursue its objectives vigorously. China has altered the strategic context in Africa. ...

On major naval operations.
March 22, 2007... Major naval operations are the principal methods of combat force employment by which operational or strategic objectives are accomplished in a conventional high-intensity war at sea. The U.S. Navy and other major Western navies planned and...

Targeted killing and the law of armed conflict.
March 22, 2007... There is no consensus definition "targeted killing" in the law of armed conflict or in case law. (1) A reasonable definition is: the intentional killing of a specific civilian who cannot reasonably be apprehended, and who is taking a direct...

Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... McCallum, Jack. Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2006. 357pp. $23.07 Leonard Wood was one of the towering figures of U.S. political and military history. He had a...

The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Lind, Michael. The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. 259pp. $24 This is a finely composed and extremely timely exposition on American grand strategy. Michael...

Kagan, Frederick. Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Kagan, Frederick. Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy. New York: Encounter Books, 2006. 432pp. $29.95 How has American military strategic thought evolved since the fall of Saigon? How did each service reinvent...

Goldstein, Lyle J. Preventive Attack and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Comparative Analysis.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Goldstein, Lyle J. Preventive Attack and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Comparative Analysis. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2006. 268pp. $50 Do nuclear weapons represent a source of stability in world politics, or does the...

Kennedy, Paul. The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Kennedy, Paul. The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. New York: Random House, 2006. 384pp. $26.95 An institution as central to the contemporary world's political and geostrategic landscape as the United...

Gross, Michael L. Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gross, Michael L. Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. 384pp. $26 Debate rages today in Congress and amid the public on the tolerable limits of coercive interrogation and...

Vego, Milan. The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Vego, Milan. The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. 479pp. $55 There have been many books published about the battle for Leyte Gulf. This book,...

Tyerman, Christopher. God's War: A New History of the Crusades.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Tyerman, Christopher. God's War: A New History of the Crusades. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2006. 1,024pp. $35 Christopher Tyerman, a lecturer in medieval history at Oxford University, offers this work at a crucial moment. With...

Reynolds, David. From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Reynolds, David. From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. 363pp. $45 In this insightful and elegantly written set of essays in international history,...

Till, Geoffrey, ed. The Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranft.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Till, Geoffrey, ed. The Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranfi. New York: Routledge, 2006. 214pp. $125 This collection of nine essays on British naval thought from the eighteenth century to the present is...

Gilbert, Alton Keith, ed. A Leader Born.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gilbert, Alton Keith, ed. A Leader Born. Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2006. 230pp. $32.95 Alton Keith Gilbert, a retired naval officer, uses a descriptive survey method of research through letters, operational documents, fitness reports,...

Osborne, Eric W. The Battle of Heligoland Bight.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Osborne, Eric W. The Battle of Heligoland Bight. Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press, 2006. 141pp. $27.95 Butler, Daniel Allen. Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War. Westport, Conn.: Praeger...

Henriques, Peter R. Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Henriques, Peter R. Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2006. 256pp. $26.95 The man who was "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen" is also first...

Monday morning quarterbacking?(Donald H. Rumsfeld)
March 22, 2007... Sir: Professor Owens's article "Rumsfeld, the Generals, and the State of U.S. Civil-Military Relations" (Autumn 2006, pp. 68-80) provides a welcomed counterpunch to Rumsfeld's retired uniformed critics and rightly places Rumsfeld's...

PSI and UNCLOS.
March 22, 2007... Sir: In his response ("Is the PSI Really the Cornerstone of a New International Norm?" Autumn 2006, pp. 123-30) to my article on the subject in the Spring 2006 issue (pp. 29-57), Mark J. Valencia opines "that the implementation, if not the...

Strategic Studies Quarterly.(OF SPECIAL INTEREST)
March 22, 2007... To commemorate the U.S. Air Force's sixtieth anniversary, the Air University has announced the inauguration of Strategic Studies Quarterly, a peer-reviewed forum for ideas on strategy, international security, defense policy, and the...