Naval War College Review
Volume 72, Number 2 (2019) Spring 2019
A Chinese amphibious transport ship leaves port in the Netherlands in January 2015. In “Surging Second Sea Force: China’s Maritime Law-Enforcement Forces, Capabilities, and Future in the Gray Zone and Beyond,” Andrew Erickson, Joshua Hickey, and Henry Holst analyze the growth of China’s sea services and the coordination between the gray hulls of the PLA Navy and the white hulls of the China Coast Guard as together they work to enhance China’s maritime law- enforcement activities throughout the western Pacific.
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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
Surging Second Sea Force: China’s Maritime Law-Enforcement Forces, Capabilities, and Future in the Gray Zone and Beyond
Andrew S. Erickson, Joshua Hickey, and Henry Holst
U.S. Conventional Access Strategy: Denying China a Conventional First-Strike Capability
Sam Goldsmith
Wargame Business: Wargames in Military and Corporate Settings
Shay Hershkovitz
Book Reviews
The Plurality of American War: "Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century"
John T. Kuehn, Matthew S. Muehlbauer, and David J. Ulbrich
Counting the Cost of Learning: "Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1895–1945"
Dale C. Rielage and Trent Hone
The Royal Navy in the Age of Austerity, 1919–22: Naval and Foreign Policy under Lloyd George
John B. Hattendorf and G. H. Bennett
The End of Grand Strategy: US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Steven Metz, Simon Reich, and Peter Dombrowski
Hell on Earth
Timothy J. Demy, Avigdor Hameiri, and Peter C. Appelbaum
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
Jeff A. Bovarnick and Brian Drohan
Realist Ethics: Just War Traditions as Power Politics
Doyle Hodges and Valerie Morkevičius
Cadets on Campus: History of Military Schools of the United States
Thomas J. Gibbons and John Alfred Coulter II
Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict
Richard J. Norton, Michael L. Gross, and Tamar Meisels
Patton’s Way: A Radical Theory of War
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes and James Kelly Morningstar
Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America
Christopher Nelson and Ronit Y. Stahl
The 1st Infantry Division and the US Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970–1991
Neal H. Bralley and Gregory Fontenot
Reflections on Reading
Reflections on Reading
John E. Jackson
Credits
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