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Winter 2013 Review the .SU Naval War College Naval War College Review Volume 66 Article 20 Number 1 Winter 2013 Winter 2013 Review The .SU Naval War College Follow this and additional works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review Recommended Citation War College, The .SU Naval (2013) "Winter 2013 Review," Naval War College Review: Vol. 66 : No. 1 , Article 20. Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol66/iss1/20 This Full Issue 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]. War College: Winter 2013 Review NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Winter 2013 Volume 66, Number 1 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS 686 Cushing Road Newport, RI 02841-1207 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2013 1 NWC_Winter2013Review.indd 1 11/6/12 8:31 AM Naval War College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 1, Art. 20 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS ADVISORY BOARD PRESIDENT, NAVAL WAR COLLEGE Adam Bellow Rear Adm. John N. Christenson, USN Jeffrey Kline PROVOST Gale A. Mattox Amb. Mary Ann Peters Robert A. Silano Marin Strmecki DEAN OF NAVAL WARFARE STUDIES Dov S. Zakheim Robert C. Rubel NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS NAVA L WAR COLLEGE REVIEW EDITORIAL BOARD Carnes Lord, Editor Donald Chisholm Pelham G. Boyer, Managing Editor Audrey Kurth Cronin Phyllis P. Winkler, Book Review Editor Peter Dombrowski Lori A. Almeida, Secretary and Circulation Manager Stephen Downes-Martin Frank Uhlig, Jr., Editor Emeritus Col. Theodore L. Gatchel, USMC (Ret.) James R. Holmes Naval War College Review Capt. 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The thoughts and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the U.S. government, the U.S. Navy Department, or the Naval War College. The journal is published quarterly. Distribution is limited generally to commands and activities of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; regular and reserve officers of U.S. services; foreign officers and civilians having a present or previous affiliation with the Naval War College; selected U.S. government officials and agen- cies; and selected U.S. and international libraries, research centers, publications, and educational institutions. Contributors Please request the standard contributors’ guidance from the managing editor or access it online before submitting manuscripts. 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POSTMASTERS, send address changes to: Naval War College Review, Code 32S, Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd., Newport, R.I. 02841-1207. ISSN 0028-1484 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2013 3 NWC_Winter2013Review.indd 3 10/31/12 9:48 AM Naval War College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 1, Art. 20 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol66/iss1/20 4 NWC_Winter2013Review.indd 4 11/6/12 8:31 AM War College: Winter 2013 Review CONTENTS From the Editors . 3 The Hattendorf Prize Lecture: The Perils of History . 7 N. A. M. Rodger President’s Forum . 17 The Secretary and CNO on 23–24 October 1962 Setting the Historical Record Straight . 21 Captain William H. J. Manthorpe, Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired) It has long been reported and believed that during the Cuban missile crisis the Navy knew ahead of time but failed to inform national command authorities that the feared and highly dangerous confrontations at the quarantine line would not occur. Newly available research shows that this view is fundamentally misleading. Globalization, Security, and Economic Well-Being . 41 Stephen M. Carmel To say that the world’s economies are interdependent does not adequately, or even remotely, express the true nature of today’s global economic activity. It is imperative that those charged with regulating and protecting the system of global trade have a good appreciation of what it is they are regulating and protecting. Replacing Battleships with Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific in World War II . 56 Thomas C. Hone The fleet that matured in the Pacific War was not simply an adaptation, based on carriers, of the battleship force decimated at Pearl Harbor but something new—a modern, combined-arms force supported cohesively by infrastructure and doctrine. Sea Control through the Eyes of the Person Who Does It A Theoretical Field Analysis . 77 Christofer Waldenström Is the notorious “flaming datum” the only way to know whether local sea control has been achieved? How can commanders keep track of all the threats, assets, givens, and options? Theory and analysis may be able to help. Commentary For Want of a Timely Call . 101 Captain John F. O’Connell, U.S. Navy (Retired) Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2013 5 NWC_Winter2013Review.indd 1 11/1/12 10:56 AM 2 NAVAL WAR NavalCOLLEGE War REVIEW College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 1, Art. 20 Research & Debate Parshall’s “Whoppers” Examined: Fact-Checking the Various Claims and Conclusions of Jonathan Parshall. 110 Martin Bennett Book Reviews The Obamians: The Struggle inside the White House to Redefine American Power, by James Mann reviewed by John A. Cloud . 126 The George W. Bush Defense Program: Policy, Strategy & War, edited by Stephen J. Cimbala reviewed by Tate Westbrook . 128 Cyberspace and National Security: Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World, edited by Derek S. Reveron reviewed by Brett J. Patron . 129 Maritime Piracy, by Robert Haywood and Roberta Spivak reviewed by Edward Lucas . 130 War and Human Nature, by Stephen Peter Rosen reviewed by Martin L. Cook . 131 The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology, edited by Alexis Catsambis, Ben Ford, and Donny L. Hamilton reviewed by John B. Hattendorf . 132 Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich, by Robert Gerwarth reviewed by Richard Norton . 133 In My View . 136 Reflections on Reading . 138 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol66/iss1/20 6 NWC_Winter2013Review.indd 2 11/1/12 10:56 AM War College: Winter 2013 Review FROM THE EDITORS There is a powerful undercurrent of thought throughout our defense establish- ment that doubts the value of the study of history for addressing today’s security challenges. It is sometimes said—and more commonly assumed—that the pace of technological development in this new age of networked communications and precision targeting is rapidly rendering obsolete the lessons of past international conflicts. In remarks delivered to the Naval War College’s Twentieth International Seapower Symposium on 20 October 2011 as the inaugural Hattendorf Prize Lecture, the distinguished British naval historian N. A. M. Rodger defends the study of history by military professionals and contemporary statesmen. Like it or not, he argues, we cannot escape the grip of history, which continues to shape basic assumptions we make about today’s world whether or not we recognize it fully. Professor John Hattendorf, chair of the Naval War College’s Department of Maritime History, is the author most recently of Talking about Naval History: A Collection of Essays (Newport: Naval War College Press, 2011). That conventional historical narratives are frequently flawed and in need of challenge and reinterpretation, as Rodger also suggests, is well illustrated by our lead article. William H. J. Manthorpe, Jr., in “The Secretary and CNO on 23–24 October 1962: Setting the Historical Record Straight,” offers a meticulous recon- struction of one of the most storied incidents of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the alleged confrontation between Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and then–Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George Anderson over the Navy’s han- dling of the “quarantine” of Cuba. On the basis of personal interviews with con- temporary participants as well as recently declassified intelligence, Manthorpe is able to dismiss the long-accepted idea that the CNO was culpably unresponsive to higher authority in withholding critical information about the movement of Soviet transport ships from his civilian superiors.
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