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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

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Spring 2022 Full Issue
The U.S. Naval War College

From the Editor

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From the Editors
Robert Ayer

President's Forum

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President's Forum
Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College

Articles

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Command of the Sea Redux
Robert C. Rubel

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What WAS Nimitz Thinking?
Jonathan B. Parshall

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In My View
Leonard F. Picotte and James Alvey

Book Reviews

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The Sailor’s Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea
Charles D. Melson and James G. Stavridis

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The Day After: Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace
Richard Norton and Brendan R. Gallagher

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Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat
Scott F. Paradis, Jeffrey R. Cares, and Anthony Cowden

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One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World
Kathleen A. Walsh and Eyck Freymann

Reflections on Reading

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Reflections on Reading
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Credits

Source: Published by A. C. Bosselman and Company, New York. Courtesy of R. D. Jeska, 1984. Naval History and Heritage Command collection.