Naval War College Review

Gordon, Andrew. The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996. 708pp. $48.95 NAVAL TACTICS USED TO BE DEFINED AS "actions that one takes in the presence of the enemy"; in that sense, this lengthy...

THERE IS A SMALL BUT GROWING LITERATURE by Caribbean scholars on the actual and potential impact of the end of the Cold War on the Caribbean region. These assessments point to myriad implications, significant both in scope and depth-implications in international...

Sheppard, Don. Destroyer Skipper: A Memoir of Command at Sea. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1996. 270pp. $24.95 Destroyer Skipper is an engaging recounting of the author's experiences while serving first as the executive officer of one destroyer and later...

Norman, Richard. Ethics, Killing and War. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. 256pp. X39.95 Richard Norman, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, has produced a book that should be required reading for theorists...

Johnston, Douglas, ed. Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The U.S. Leadership Challenge. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1996. 160pp. $20 ORDER AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL are qualities that appeal to the military professional,...

"A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO,NO ONE took information warfare seriously But the more you learn about it, the more concerned you become."1 Typical of many today on the subject of information warfare, this statement implies the equation: ignorance = complacence....

Griffiths, Ann L., and Peter T. Haydon, eds. Maritime Forces in Global Security: Comparative Views of Maritime Strategy as We Approach the 21 st Century. Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie Univ., 1995. 362pp. $12 This...

I HAVE LONG BELIEVED THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST strengths of the Naval War College is in its diversity. Our student body, faculty, and staff are composed of representatives of all of the military services, as well as many defense agencies. But, by design,...

Khalilzad, Zalmay, ed. Strategic Appraisal 1996. Santa Monica, Calif: RAND, 1996. (Available from National Book Network) 329pp. $20 Binnendijk, Hans, and Patrick Clawson, eds. 1997 Strategic Assessment: Flashpoints and Force Structure. Washington, D.C.:...

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN YEARS BEFORE the Communists invaded South Korea, Karl von Clausewitz wrote: "A swift and vigorous transition to attack-the flashing sword of vengeance-is the most brilliant point of the defensive." The landing at Inchon in September...

McMichael, William H. The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Sandal. New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction, 1997. 337pp. $32.95 The first agency directed to look into the Tailhook episode was the Naval Investigative Service (NIS), which...

MOST MILITARY ACCOUNTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR emphasize the role of the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force. During the war, little attention was paid to operations to prevent coastal and riverine infiltration by communist forces. This story-particularly the...

THE WORLD CHANGED DRAMATICALLY in 1989-1990, and America's national security policy changed as well. U.S. strategy shifted from a focus on a global threat to a focus on regional challenges and opportunities.1 This shift meant a change from blue-water...

Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. 425pp. $30 The dean of American diplomatic history, John Lewis Gaddis, has taken on an important subject in the history of international relations and American...