Naval War College Review
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Volume 76, Number 4 (2023) Autumn 2023
Sailors on USS Florida (BB 30) conduct a loading drill on one of the ship’s secondary-battery guns in 1915. Note the projectile, bagged powder charge, rammer, opened gun-breech mechanism, sighting telescope on the left side of the gun, and telephone talker standing nearby. Also note that one of the gun crewmen has bare feet. In “Laying the Groundwork for Sims: Albert P. Niblack as the First USN Inspector of Target Practice, and the Gunnery Revolution of the U.S. Navy,” Andrew K. Blackley discusses the different personal and professional approaches of and interrelationships among Niblack and William S. Sims, their higher-ups in the Navy bureaucracy, and the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt during a crucial and dynamic period in USN history.
Full Issue
Autumn 2023 Full Issue
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From the Editor
From the Editors
Carnes Lord Editor and Robert Ayer Managing Editor
President's Forum
President's Forum
Pete Garvin Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College
Articles
Laying the Groundwork for Sims—Albert P. Niblack as the First USN Inspector of Target Practice, and the Gunnery Revolution of the U.S. Navy
Andrew K. Blackley
Book Reviews
Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588
John B. Hattendorf, Colin Martin, and Geoffrey Parker
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to theDigital Age
Marc A. Genest and Hal Brands
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965–1968
David Adamic and Mark Moyar
Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418–413 B.C.
Michael Hochberg and Paul A. Rahe
The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power: France’s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy, 1940–1963
Richard Norton and Hugues Canuel
An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics
Robert L. Stone and Jonathan Kirshner
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
Joseph Mroszczyk and Mark Galeotti
Navy Staff Officer’s Guide: Leading with Impact from Squadron to OPNAV
Ed Hernandez and Dale C. Rielage
Genome Editing and Biological Weapons: Assessing the Risk of Misuse
William C. Wells and Katherine Paris
Reflections on Reading
Reflections on Reading
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Credits
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph from the collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor, USN