Naval War College Review
Volume 39, Number 4 (1986) Autumn
This colorful recruiting poster painted by James H. Daugherty, is intended to entice unsophisticated but adventurous young men into the Navy early in this century. It illustrates both Captain Ariel M. Rosas 's observation in this issue that "the United States treated Latin America throughout most of the 19th century and early 20th century as its private backyard, to do with as it wished," and Professor Donald A. Yerxa's discussion of the old Special Service Squadron through which a reluctant U.S . Navy attempted to carry out unsought duties in the Caribbean and Central America. This edition also carries an article on a current issue in Central American waters, that by M. Elizabeth Gunn on arms interdiction.
Full Issue
Autumn 1986 Full Issue
The U.S. Naval War College
President's Forum
President's Notes
Ronald F. Marryott
Articles
Marshal Ogarkov on the Modern Theater Operation
Mary C. FitzGerald
Southeast Asia Ten Years after the Fall of Saigon
Bernard Trainor
The Special Service Squadron and the Caribbean Region, 1920-1940: A Case Study in Naval Diplomacy
Donald A. Yerxa
Arms Interdiction and the U.S. Navy: Prospects in Central America
M. Elizabeth Guran
Miscalculated Risks: The German Declaration of War against the United States, 1917 and 1941
Holger H. Herwig
Book Reviews
Professional Reading: "Air Warfare in the Missile Age"
Myrl W. Allinder and Lon O. Nordeen
Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE-343
William S. Dudley and Edward Peary Stafford
U.S.-Soviet Military Balance: 1980-1985
James L. George and John M. Collins
The Military Balance 1985-1986
G. Paul Holman Jr. and The International Institute for Strategic Studies
The Sino-Japanese Axis, A New Force in Asia?
Edward A. Olsen and Robert Taylor
The Last Frontier: An Analysis of the Strategic Defense Initiative
Anthony C. Dirienzo, Gary L. Guertner, and Donald M. Snow
Strategic Defense: "Star Wars" in Perspective
Stephen O. Fought and Keith B. Payne
Citizens and Soldiers: The Dilemmas of Military Service
Jean Yarbrough and Eliot A. Cohen
Secrets of State
J. K. Holloway Jr. and Barry Rubin
Why Nations Go To War
Donald M. Snow and John G. Stoessinger
Cuba: From Columbus to Castro
Raymond A. Komorowski and Jaime Suchlicki
The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider's View
Curtis Carroll Davis and Ladislav Bittman
"The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait," "The Last Battle Station: The Saga of the U.S.S. Houston"
Henry F. Eccles, W. G. Winslow, and Duane Schultz
Bull Halsey
Thomas R. Weschler and Elmer B. Potter
Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor
Stephen T. Delamater and Bill D. Ross
Okinawa 1945: Gateway to Japan
Peter C. Unsinger and Ian Gow
The Fight for the Channel Ports: Calais to Brest—A Study in Confusion
J. L. Moulton and Michael Glover
Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II
Stephen F. Ambrose and Clay Blair
Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War: An International Security Reader
David F. Trask and Stephen E. Miller
The First World War
Frank Jordan and Keith Robbins
U.S. Armored Cruisers: A Design and Operational History
Strafford Morss and Ivan Musicant
U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History
Michael Vlahos and Norman Friedman
Battleships and Battle-Cruisers, 1884-1984: A Bibliography and Chronology
John H. Hattendorf and Myron J. Smith Jr.
Ships of the Panama Canal
Thomas Hone and James Shaw
Sea Dangers: the Affair of the Somers
J. G. Brennan and Philip McFarland
South Light: A Journey to the Last Continent
Daniel "A" Ellison and Michael Parfit
Additional Writings
In My View
R. D. Jacobs, James S. Dearth, Richard H. Amberg Jr., and C. E. Meyers Jr.
Recent Books
Robert M. Laske
