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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_Spring2013Review.indb 3 2/26/13 8:48 AM Naval War College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 2, Art. 1 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol66/iss2/1 4 NWC_Spring2013Review_FrontMatter.indd 4 2/26/13 10:29 AM Naval War College: Spring 2013 Full Issue CONTENTS From the Editors ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 3 President’s Forum . 7 Naval Operations in Peacetime Not Just “Warfare Lite” . 11 I van T. Luke Naval strategists and practitioners will need to be smart about how they approach peacetime mis- sions, yet existing naval theory fails to support the necessary full understanding. It needs to catch up. Northwest Pacific The Senkaku/Diaoyu Island Controversy A Crisis Postponed . 27 Paul J. Smith Changes in the geopolitical environment are reducing opportunities for peaceful resolution of the long-running Senkakus/Diaoyus dispute. Emotion and nationalism must not be allowed to obscure the reality that China and Japan are inextricably tied to one another. The “Consequent Interest” of Japan’s Southwestern Islands A Mahanian Appraisal of the Ryukyu Archipelago . 45 E ric Sayers The now little-known Ryukyu Archipelago may be—for reasons adduced by Alfred Thayer Mahan in another century, for other islands—of much significance today for protection of Japanese and U.S. maritime interests in the Northwest Pacific. Race to the North China’s Arctic Strategy and Its Implications ��������������������������������������������������������� 62 Shiloh Rainwater The effects of the emerging and prospective economic and strategic opportunities in the Arctic are being felt far beyond the circumpolar states. China, for one, has begun to promulgate the notion that it is a “near-Arctic state” and a stakeholder in the affairs of the High North. Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2013 5 NWC_Spring2013Review.indb 1 2/26/13 8:48 AM 2 n AVAL WAR COLLEGENaval REV WarIEW College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 2, Art. 1 Maritime Commerce Warfare The Coercive Response of the Weak? ����������������������������������������������������������������� 83 Douglas C. Peifer Guerre de course has repeatedly been consigned to extinction by navies and theorists, who have assumed that legal, economic, and technological developments rendered it obsolete—only to be proved mistaken. Will it happen again? Commentary Deepwater Oil Rigs as Strategic Weapons. 110 Martin Murphy Review Essay Like Strangers Trapped in a Dark Room . 115 Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War, by Nicholas Lambert reviewed by Thomas Hone Book Reviews Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West, by Tonio Andrade, reviewed by Grant F. Rhode . 121 China as a Sea Power: A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People during the Southern Song and Yuan Periods, by Lo Jung-pang (edited by Bruce Elleman) reviewed by Charles Horner. 122 The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s, by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker reviewed by Dale C. Rielage . 123 The Changing Character of War, edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers reviewed by Martin Murphy. 124 Potomac Fever: A Memoir of Politics and Public Service, by J. William Middendorf II reviewed by John Hattendorf . 126 Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design since 1945, by David K. Brown and George Moore reviewed by Angus K. Ross . 127 The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle against Fate, by Robert Kaplan reviewed by F. G. Hoffman . 129 The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery behind the Photo That Ended World War II, by Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi reviewed by John Jackson . 130 In My View . 133 Of Special Interest . 142 Reflections on Reading . 143 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol66/iss2/1 6 NWC_Spring2013Review.indb 2 2/26/13 8:48 AM Naval War College: Spring 2013 Full Issue from THE editors F rom the days of Mahan through “Sea Power 21,” the theory governing the activities of the U.S. Navy has had war fighting as its overriding focus. Begin- ning with the vision of a former Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Mullen, of a “thousand-ship navy,” however, there has been a gradual broadening in our Navy’s perspective in the direction of what is most commonly known as “maritime security cooperation,” and indeed of peacetime naval and maritime missions more generally. The Navy’s “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower” (2007) was the key milestone in this evolution. This document may be credited with stimulating an unparalleled upsurge in international coopera- tion in the maritime domain in the years following, a development that remains very imperfectly understood and appreciated in many quarters of the American national security community. In what we believe to be an important and timely article, “Naval Operations in Peacetime: Not Just ‘Warfare Lite,’” Ivan T. Luke makes the case for the need to rethink naval theory and doctrine in fundamental ways to cope with the new realities of the global system of commerce, proliferat- ing legal and regulatory regimes, and the increasing interactions of the world’s navies.