Naval War College Review
Volume 75, Number 2 (2022) Spring 2022
In this color-tinted postcard photo, Torpedo Boat Sailors, circa 1905, sailors pose with one of their boat’s eighteen-inch torpedo tubes, with the rear of the torpedo showing. In “No Magic Number: Predreadnought Fleet Architecture in the U.S. Navy, 1902–1905,” John T. Kuehn reminds us that over a century ago the U.S. Navy went through a period similar to today in which rapid technological change, the need for a new vision for the fleet, and a dichotomy between “traditional” and “progressive” viewpoints complicated efforts to settle on a plan for the size and makeup of that fleet.
Full Issue
Spring 2022 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
Command of the Sea Redux
Robert C. Rubel
What WAS Nimitz Thinking?
Jonathan B. Parshall
The Second Anglo-Icelandic Cod War (1972–73)—Analysis of a Modern Sea Dispute and Implications for the South China Sea
Jeremy Thompson
In My View
Leonard F. Picotte and James Alvey
Book Reviews
Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding, 1922–1945,
Anna Matilde Bassoli and Thomas Heinrich
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won the War
Timothy J. Demy and Simon Parkin
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Pat McKim and Malcolm Gladwell
The Sailor’s Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea
Charles D. Melson and James G. Stavridis
China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications
Francis Miyata and Michael A. McDevitt
The Day After: Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace
Richard Norton and Brendan R. Gallagher
Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat
Scott F. Paradis, Jeffrey R. Cares, and Anthony Cowden
Anson’s Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire, 1744 to 1763
Michael Romero and Brian Lavery
George C. Marshall and the Early Cold War: Policy, Politics, and Society
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes and William A. Taylor
One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World
Kathleen A. Walsh and Eyck Freymann
Reflections on Reading
Reflections on Reading
The U.S. Naval War College
Credits
Source: Published by A. C. Bosselman and Company, New York. Courtesy of R. D. Jeska, 1984. Naval History and Heritage Command collection.