Volume 79, Number 4 (2026) Autumn 2026

The keys to our past help illuminate the future of the maritime domain in this issue. Starting with the lead article, "Perception Management: An Overlooked and Enduring Element of the 1980s Maritime Strategy," Anand Toprani sheds light on Cold War lessons through a newly public collection of William Manthorpe's archival materials. Michael Kidd, Giana Farry, Violet G. Frost, Liam Kiley, Aakash Palathra, and Moe Abdelsalam explore the widespread ramifications and chains of risks owing to choke-point disruptions in "Interrelated Risk of the Maritime Choke-Point Network." Historical patterns and practitioner experience are presented as a possible solution to blockades in naval innovation in David H. Lewis's "Creating the Foundry: Organizational Learning and Technology Innovation Leadership in the United States Navy." Charles Edward Gehrke answers the question of war gaming's purpose in "What War Games Actually Teach: Threat Recognition, Not Prediction." Attacks on submarine cables are revealed to be a much more prevalent occurrence than it would first appear in Jonathan Winkler's "A History of State Attacks on Submarine Cables." Dan-Dragoș Sichigea's "The Other Dunkirk: German-Romanian Preparations for the Evacuation of Crimea (1943–1944)" examines the eighty-plus-year-old event with an eye toward recent conflict in the region. Matthew Ikenoyama presents a possible new paradigm for managing moral injury in "Moral Injury Is a Readiness Problem: The Case for a Chaplain-Led, Peer-Intervention Model." Finally, "'Long before the Enemy Is Sighted': Frank Marble, Cdr., USN," written by Carlos R. Rivera, paints a picture of a forgotten figure in naval history.