Naval War College Review Volume 63 Article 11 Number 4 Autumn 2010 The oM st Daring Act of the Age—Principles for Naval Irregular Warfare Benjamin Armstrong U.S. Navy Follow this and additional works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review Recommended Citation Armstrong, Benjamin (2010) "The osM t Daring Act of the Age—Principles for Naval Irregular Warfare," Naval War College Review: Vol. 63 : No. 4 , Article 11. Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol63/iss4/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Naval War College Review by an authorized editor of U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Color profile: Generic CMYK printer profile Composite Default screen Armstrong: The Most Daring Act of the Age—Principles for Naval Irregular War THE MOST DARING ACT OF THE AGE Principles for Naval Irregular Warfare Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Navy s the American military confronts the challenges of the twenty-first century Athere is a great deal of discussion of counterinsurgency, hybrid conflict, and irregular warfare. In military history none of these concepts are new. Much of the recent scholarship and writing on these forms of warfare has focused on to- day’s operations ashore, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, there are significant implications for naval warfare as well. The leaders of the sea services stated in the “Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower”that “preventing wars is as important as winning wars.”1 IftheU.S.Navyisgoingtoembracethis belief as it sails deeper into the twenty-first century, development of naval irreg- ular warfare will become vital to its future success and relevance.