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NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW

Volume LIII, No. 2, Sequence 370    Spring 2000


President’s Forum    

The Military Response to Terrorism    
CAPTAIN MARK E. KOSNIK, U.S. NAVY

Military force can be a valuable part of the U.S. strategy to contain terrorism: under certain conditions, the political and strategic gains justify employment of military force against terrorism.

Deciding on Military Intervention: What Is the Role of Senior Military Leaders?    
JOHN GAROFANO

Deliberations on the possible use of force have usually failed to provide U.S. leaders with the information and advice necessary to make informed decisions. How can this be improved?

Negotiated Joint Command Relationships: Korean War Amphibious Operations, 1950    
DONALD CHISHOLM

Issues include getting the right commander, with the relevant combat and amphibious experience, in the right place at the right time; and properly locating that place in the military hierarchy, assigning it responsibilities appropriate to the task at hand and discretion sufficient to the task.

Argentina, a New U.S. Non-Nato Ally: Significance and Expectations    
COMMANDER FEDERICO LUIS LARRINAGA,
ARGENTINE NAVY

What does this designation mean? What does it really involve? What should be done to take advantage of this remarkable opportunity for partnership with the world’s leading nation? What will the United States expect from Argentina, and what should Argentina expect in return?

The Politics of Extravagance: The Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project    
CAROLYN C. JAMES

The Navy was the post–World War II leader in supporting research for technological innovations intended to strengthen U.S. military might; the ANP project, however, is one instance in which it would have been better not to have been involved at all.

IN MY VIEW    

SET AND DRIFT

Navy 2001: Back to the Future
Robert Wilkie    

REVIEW ESSAYS

Guadalcanal: A Reevaluation
Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.    

Don’t Techno for an Answer: The False Promise of Information Warfare
Brent Stuart Goodwin   

BOOK REVIEWS

Modern Strategy, by Colin S. Gray
reviewed by Mark T. Clark     

Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present,
by Michael D. Pearlman
reviewed by Thomas R. Bendel    

Network Centric Warfare: Developing and Leveraging Information Superiority,
by David S. Alberts, John J. Garstka, and Frederick P. Stein
reviewed by Michael C. Fowler    

The Principles of War for the Information Age,
by Robert R. Leonhard
reviewed by Drew Hamilton    

The Once and Future Security Council,
edited by  Bruce Russett
reviewed by Thomas C. Wingfield    

Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union: Russian and American Perspectives,
edited by Alexei Arbatov et al.
reviewed by Barry Zalauf    

Rolling Thunder,
by Ivan Rendall
reviewed by J. A. Winnefeld, Jr.    

Hunters in the Shallows: A History of the PT Boat,
by Curtis L. Nelson;
PT Boats at War: World War II to Vietnam,
by Norman Polmar and Samuel Loring Morison; and
The Sea Hawks with the PT Boats at War: A Memoir,
by Edgar D. Hoagland,
reviewed by William Cooper    

Gyrene: The World War II United States Marine,
by Wilbur D. Jones, Jr.
reviewed by J. Robert Moskin    

Commanders Winn and Knowles: Winning the U-boat War with Intelligence, 1939–1943,
by David Kohnen
reviewed by Dale C. Rielage    

Merchant Marine Days: My Life in World War II,
by David LaMont Lee
reviewed by Robert Reilly    

After the Trenches: The Transformation of U.S. Army Doctrine, 1918–1939,
by William O. Odom
reviewed by Cole C. Kingseed    

The First World War,
by John Keegan
reviewed by Frank C. Mahncke   

Alaska and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 1867–1915,
by Truman R. Strobridge, and Dennis L. Noble
reviewed by Tom Beard    

Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan,
by Craig L. Symonds
reviewed by Michael B. Chesson