Naval War College Review
Volume 69, Number 2 (2016) Spring 2016
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1917) served as the College’s second president in 1886–1889 and as its fourth president in 1892–1893. In 1885, Admiral Luce chose Mahan to be the Naval War College’s first instructor in naval history and tactics. In 1892, he returned with a new set of lectures to deliver: The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793–1805 (1892). These books were the first that drew international attention to the College. Later, he returned to lecture between 1895 and 1912.
Full Issue
Spring 2016 Full Issue
The U.S. Naval War College
From the Editor
From the Editors
Carnes Lord
President's Forum
The CNO’s Design and the Naval War College
P. Gardner Howe III
Articles
A Design For Maintaining Maritime Superiority
John M. Richardson
The 1974 Paracels Sea Battle: A Campaign Appraisal
Toshi Yoshihara
The Battle of Quemoy: The Amphibious Assault That Held the Postwar Military Balance in the Taiwan Strait
Maochun Miles Yu
National Interest and Moral Responsibility in the Political Thought of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
Thomas F.X. Varacalli
Book Reviews
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective
Karl Walling and Hew Strachan
Authority, Ascendancy, and Supremacy: China, Russia, and the United States’ Pursuit of Relevancy and Power
Gregory O. Hall and Alexander B. Gray
The Battle of Lake Champlain: A “Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory,” War in the Chesapeake: The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813–14
John H. Schroeder, Charles Neimeyer, and Richard V. Barbuto
The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics
James Turner Johnson, Eric D. Patterson, and Thomas Grassey
Waging War, Planning Peace: U.S. Noncombat Operations and Major Wars
Aaron Rapport and Edward Erwin
Outsourcing Security: Private Military Contractors and U.S. Foreign Policy
Bruce E. Stanley and Neal H. Bralley
Success and Failure in Limited War: Information & Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf & Iraq Wars
Spencer D. Bakich and Derrill T. Goldizen
Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan’s Balloon Bomb Attack on America
Ross Coen and John E. Jackson
Reconstructing a Shattered Egyptian Army: War Minister Gen. Mohamed Fawzi’s Memoirs, 1967–1971
Youssef H. Aboul-Enein and Richard J. Norton
Tarnished: Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Military
George E. Reed and Richard J. Norton
The China Dream: Great Power Thinking & Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era
Liu Mingfu and Grant Rhode
Logistics in the Falklands War
Kenneth L. Privratsky and Cynthia K. Sexton
The East Asian War, 1592–1598: International Relations, Violence, and Memory
James B. Lewis and Jeffrey Shaw
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Cooperation
Sam J. Tangredi and Sean Sullivan
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Karen Armstrong and Jacqueline E. Whitt
Reflections on Reading
Reflections on Reading
John E. Jackson
