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POSTMASTERS, send address changes to: Naval War College Review, Code 32S, Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd., Newport, RI 02841-1207. ISSN 0028-1484 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2020 3 Naval War College Review, Vol. 73 [2020], No. 4, Art. 1 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol73/iss4/1 4 Naval War College: Autumn 2020 Full Issue CONTENTS From the Editors � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 3 President’s Forum � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 7 Asia Rising China’s Global Navy Today’s Challenge for the United States and the U.S. Navy � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 13 James E. Fanell The PRC continues to build a naval force that, if left unchallenged, will be increasingly capable of achieving sea control in the global maritime commons as early as 2030, and potentially achieving sea superiority by 2049� The Northwest Pacific Ameliorating the Alliance Dilemma in an Age of Gray-Zone Conflict Lessons Learned from the U.S.-Japan Alliance � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 45 Michael M. Bosack Fear of abandonment and entrapment can affect alliance management in a modern strategic environment marked by gray-zone conflict� Applying notable takeaways from scholarship to the context of the modern security environment identifies the type of incidents that affect formal alliances� The U�S�-Japan alliance provides a case study of how abandonment and entrapment influ- ence alliance interactions� Naval History “Things Done by Halves” Observations from America’s First Great-Power Competition � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 67 Benjamin F. Armstrong By looking to the maritime past and scuttling the idea that somehow the “gray zones” of today have initiated something unique to our contemporary world, naval forces will be better prepared to address the challenges presented by maritime security, naval irregular warfare, and great-power friction on the world’s oceans� An examination of the Quasi War with France illuminates key questions for strategists and planners considering the interactions among great powers� Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2020 5 2 NAVAL WARNaval COLLEGE War REVIEW College Review, Vol. 73 [2020], No. 4, Art. 1 “Neither Fish nor Fowl nor Yet Good Red Herring” Joint Institutions, Single-Service Priorities, and Amphibious Capabilities in Postwar Britain � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 85 Ian Speller A joint approach to institutional responsibility for amphibious warfare served British needs dur- ing the Second World War but contributed to poor results after 1945� British capabilities did not recover until amphibious warfare became the particular responsibility of the naval service� A “New Look” at Cold War Maritime Defense The Royal Canadian Navy’s Seaward Defence Report and the Threat of the Missile-Firing Submarine, 1955 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 112 Michael Whitby The Soviets’ development in the mid-1950s of the capability to launch nuclear-armed missiles from conventional submarines constituted a significant challenge to Allied antisubmarine forces during the Cold War, impacting the U�S� Navy and Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) most� The RCN’s 1955 Seaward Defence Report reveals how a midsize navy with comparatively limited resources charged with defending a long coastline and valuable strategic targets proposed to cope with dramatically changing circumstances� Peak Oil, Progressivism, and Josephus Daniels, 1913–21� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 139 Roger Stern Daniels’s time as Secretary of the Navy was activated by Progressivism and peak oil� To preserve the Naval Oil Reserve, Daniels ultimately resorted to seizing oil, always at a below-market price and sometimes without compensation at all� His campaign to save the Navy from both peak oil and the ostensible predations of “big oil” ended in fiasco—fuel-oil seizures led by armed Marines� Book Reviews The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt, ed. David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov reviewed by John B� Hattendorf � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 167 The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, by Christian Brose reviewed by Martin L� Cook � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 168 A New Conception of War: John Boyd, the U.S. Marines, and Maneuver Warfare, by Ian T. Brown reviewed by Dale C� Rielage� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �