Naval War College Review
Volume 74, Number 4 (2021) Autumn 2021
The cover image shows USN aircraft carriers under way in the Indian Ocean in 1980. Front to back are USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), USS Midway (CV 41), and the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz (CVN 68), in company with escort ships. In “Aircraft Carriers: Missions, Survivability, Size, Cost, Numbers,” former Navy Secretary John F. Lehman and Steven Wills make a case that Midway—whose career stretched from 1945 to 1991—still represents a viable, and in many ways a superior, model for producing multiple carriers that should be added to the Nimitz and Ford mix to perform the crucial missions and functions of which aircraft carriers alone are capable.
Full Issue
Autumn 2021 Full Issue
The U.S. Naval War College
From the Editor
From the Editors
Robert Ayer
President's Forum
President's Forum
Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College
Articles
Aircraft Carriers—Missions, Survivability, Size, Cost, Numbers
John F. Lehman and Steven Wills
Sizing the Carriers—A Brief History of Alternatives
Sam J. Tangredi
Seoul’s Misguided Desire for a Nuclear Submarine
James Campbell
Jomini and Naval Special Operations Forces—An Applied-Competition Approach to Russia
Kevin D. Stringer
The Limits of Sea Power
Jakub J. Grygiel
Letter from Port Moresby
John D. Moore
Review Essay—The Swartz Festschrift: "Conceptualizing Maritime & Naval Strategy: Festschrift for Captain Peter M. Swartz, United States Navy (Ret.)"
Robert C. Rubel, Sebastian Bruns, and Sarandis Papadopoulos
Review Essay—Adaptation and the School of War: "Mars Adapting: Military Change during War"
John T. Kuehn and Frank G. Hoffman
Book Reviews
Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present
Benjamin Armstrong, Paul Kennedy, and Evan Wilson
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
John W. Strain and David Rundell
Escaping the Conflict Trap: Toward Ending Civil Wars in the Middle East
Kurt Buckendorf, Paul Salem, and Ross Harrison
The Kaiser’s U-boat Assault on America: Germany’s Great War Gamble in the First World War
Timothy J. Demy and Hans Joachim Koerver
The American Way of Empire: How America Won a World—but Lost Her Way
Jeffrey P. Rogg and James Kurth
Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt U.S. Energy Policy
Tristan Abbey and Robert Vitalis
A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy
Scott Cauble and James R. Holmes
Coalition of the UnWilling and UnAble: European Realignment and the Future of American Geopolitics
Ryan C. Hendrickson and John R. Deni
Dangerous Narratives: Warfare, Strategy, Statecraft
Nick Omichinski and Ajit K. Maan
Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War
Richard Norton and Sarah LeFanu
2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
Gerald J. Krieger and Mauro F. Guillén
Reflections on Reading
Reflections on Reading
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Credits
Source: Courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command