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NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW
Volume LIII, No. 3, Sequence 371 Summer 2000
Whispers of Warriors:
The Importance of History to the Military Professional
CONGRESSMAN IKE SKELTON
Information Warfare
Whom the Gods Would Destroy:
An Information Warfare Alternative for Deterrence
and
Compellence
MAJOR ROBERT D. CRITCHLOW, U.S. AIR FORCE
The ability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal to deter and compel smaller WMD-owning adversaries is growing smaller; an alternative strategy is required. Information warfare can provide that alternative.
Boon or Threat?
The Information Revolution and U.S. National Security
ROBERT
R. TOMES
The “information revolution” has come to dominate national security planning as much as it has come to dominate economic and social life. But this revolution, building on and subsuming previous post–World War II “revolutions,” represents more than cumulative technological advances.
The Battle of Midway: Why the Japanese Lost
DALLAS WOODBURY ISOM
Had the Japanese gotten their attack launched, they stood a very good chance of winning the battle. What, mercifully for the Americans, went wrong for the Japanese at Midway?
America’s First Limited War
LIEUTENANT COLONEL GREGORY E. FEHLINGS,
U.S.
ARMY RESERVE
America’s first limited war was also its first war fought entirely at sea. The conflict known as the “Quasi-War” confirmed and defined the constitutional authority of the United States to wage undeclared, limited war.
Mastering Violence:
An Option for Operational Military Strategy
BRIGADIER
GENERAL LOUP FRANCART, FRENCH ARMY,
AND JEAN-JACQUES PATRY
The employment of appropriate force can protect against violence, control it, contain it, even dominate it. The issue is how much force to apply. But no true operating modality has yet been worked out.
REVIEW ESSAYS
Misunderstanding Vietnam
RICHARD MEGARGEE
The Venona Progeny
HAYDEN B. PEAKE
BOOK REVIEWS
Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict,
by Stephen Van Evera,
reviewed
by Thomas G. Mahnken
Jus Paciarii: Emergent Legal Paradigms for U.N. Peace Operations
in the
21st Century, by W. Gary Sharp, Jr.,
reviewed by James P. Terry
NATO Transformed: The Alliance’s New Roles
in International Security, by
David S. Yost,
reviewed by Frederick Zilian
The End of North Korea, by Nicholas Eberstadt,
reviewed by Carmel Davis
Canada’s Asia-Pacific Security Dilemma, by Joe Varner, and
Navies in the
Post–Cold War Era, by Peter T. Haydon,
reviewed by David A. Wilbur
America’s Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National
Security,
by Jeffrey
Richelson,
reviewed by Douglas Thompson
Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case,
edited
by Robert W. Hunter, with Lynn Dean Hunter, and
Traitors among Us: Inside
the Spy Catcher’s World,
by Stuart A. Herrington,
reviewed by Robert G. Sullivan
Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb,
by Al
Christman,
reviewed by Xavier Maruyama
Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War,
by Warren
F. Kimball,
reviewed by Jan van Tol
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan
by the Japanese, by Elizabeth Norman,
reviewed by John N. Petrie
Billy, Navy Wife, by Wilma Jerman Miles,
reviewed by Evelyn M. Cherpak
American & British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919–1941,
by Thomas C.
Hone, Norman Friedman, and
Mark D. Mandeles,
reviewed by Michael C. Potter
The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory,
edited by Phillip
S. Meilinger,
reviewed by Barrett Tillman
Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904–14, by Milan N. Vego,
reviewed by Carol
Jackson Adams
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything,
by James Gleick,
reviewed
by Theophilos Gemelas