Naval War College Review
Volume 72, Number 1 (2019) Winter 2019
Aerial view of an international container cargo ship. In “Ships of State?,” Christopher R. O’Dea describes how China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited has come to control a rapidly expanding network of ports and terminals, ostensibly for commercial purposes, but has thereby gained the ability to project power through the increased physical presence of its naval vessels—turning the oceans that historically have protected the United States from foreign threats into a venue in which China can challenge U.S. interests.
Full Issue
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The U.S. Naval War College
From the Editor
From the Editors
Robert Ayer
President's Forum
President's Forum
Jeffrey A. Harley Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College
Articles
Asia Rising: Ships of State?
Christopher R. O’Dea
Book Reviews
Naval History: Review Essays
The U.S. Naval War College
World War II at Sea: A Global History
Chris Parry and Craig L. Symonds
Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life
John B. Hattendorf and Thomas Alexander Hughes
The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan’s Defense and American Strategy in Asia
William S. Murray and Ian Easton
Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881–1921
Blake I. Campbell and Paul E. Pedisich
Everything under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power
Sam J. Tangredi and Howard W. French
Anatomy of a Campaign: The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940
Lars Saunes and John Kiszely
The Cold War: A World History
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes and Odd Arne Westad
Incidents at Sea: American Confrontation and Cooperation with Russia and China, 1945–2016
James P. McGrath III and David F. Winkler
The British Carrier Strike Fleet after 1945
Angus Ross and David Hobbs
The Law of War: A Detailed Assessment of the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual
Jeffrey Biller, William H. Boothby, and Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
Soldiers and Civilization: How the Profession of Arms Thought and Fought the Modern World into Existence
Edward Erwin and Reed Robert Bonadonna
Selling War: A Critical Look at the Military’s PR Machine
Richard J. Norton and Steven J. Alvarez
Reflections on Reading
Reflections on Reading
John E. Jackson
Credits
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