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Naval War College Review


Volume LI, Number 1, Sequence 361
Winter 1998


President's Notes


Articles

Logistical Planning for War (October 1948)
Vice Admiral Robert B. Carney, U.S. Navy

Realism in International Politics (January 1958)
Hans Morgenthau

Strategy as an Art and a Science (February 1959)
Bernard Brodie

An Address (September 1964)
Paul H. Nitze

The Theory and Practice of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency (April 1965)
Bernard B. Fall

Thoughts on Naval Strategy, World War II (March 1968)
Samuel Eliot Morison

The Role of the Press (February 1971)
Neil Sheehan

Convocation Address (November-December 1972)
Vice Admiral Stansfield Turner, U.S. Navy

Experiences as a POW in Vietnam (January-February 1974)
Rear Admiral James B. Stockdale, U.S. Navy

Missions of the U.S. Navy (March 1974)
VIce Admiral Stansfield Turner

How Will History Judge Us? (Fall 1975)
Barbara W. Tuchman

The Admiral Raymond A. Spruance Lecture (Summer 1978)
Henry A. Kissinger

Sadness and Hope: Some Thoughts on Modern Warfare (September-October 1980)
Herman Wouk

"This Is Your Ticket to Compete" (November-December 1982)
Admiral James D. Watkins, U.S. Navy

The Hundred Year Growing Pain (September-October 1984)
Paul R. Schratz

A Concept of Service (November-December 1984)
General John W. Vessey, Jr., U.S. Army


In My View

Letters to the Editor


Book Reviews

Nuclear Designs:
Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms,
by Bruce D. Larkin, reviewed by Myron A. Greenberg

Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990s,
by Daniel P. Bolger, reviewed by Carol Livsey Loeblein

Dark Eagles: A History of Top Secret U.S. Aircraft Programs,
by Curtis Peebles, reviewed by Porter Halyburton

A Most Fortunate Ship: A Narrative History of Old Ironsides,
by Tyrone G. Martin, reviewed by John B. Hattendorf

Bluewater Sailor: The Memoirs of a Destroyer Officer,
by Don Sheppard, reviewed by William V. Garcia



Our Cover:

A collage of all twenty-two publishers of the Naval War College Review (that is, the Presidents of the Naval War College, less four who served for very brief periods) in the journal's first fifty years--plus Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, its founder. As pictured, they are, starting from upper left:

Front cover: Raymond A. Spruance, Ronald J. Kurth, Julien J. LeBourgeois, Joseph C. Strasser, Lynde D. McCormick, James E. Service, Stansfield Turner, Charles L. Melson, John A. Baldwin, James R. Stark.

Back cover: Benedict J. Semmes, Jr., Donald B. Beary, Bernald L. Austin, Huntington Hardisty, Richard G. Colbert, Richard L. Conolly, Stuart H. Ingersoll, John T. Hayward, Thomas H. Robbins, Jr., Ronald F. Marryott, James B. Stockdale, Edward F. Welch, Jr.

(Photographs courtesy Naval War College Museum.)