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Naval War College: Autumn 2013 Full Issue NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Autumn 2013 Volume 66, Number 4 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS 686 Cushing Road Newport, RI 02841-1207 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2013 1 Naval War College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 4, Art. 1 N AVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS ADVISORY BOARD PRESIDENT, NAVAL WAR COLLEGE A dam Bellow R ear Adm. Walter E. Carter, Jr., USN Jeffrey Kline P ROVOST Gale A. Mattox A mb. Mary Ann Peters Robert A. Silano Marin Strmecki DEA N OF NAVAL WARFARE STUDIES Dov S. Zakheim R obert C. Rubel N AVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW EDITORIAL BOARD Carnes Lord, Editor D onald 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. Dennis Mandsager, JAGC, USN (Ret.) 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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 Naval War College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 4, Art. 1 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol66/iss4/1 4 Naval War College: Autumn 2013 Full Issue CONTENTS From the Editors ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 3 President’s Forum . 7 National Policy and the Post-systemic Navy. 11 R obert C. Rubel If what happens overseas affects what happens here in North America, then the United States needs to have a voice and influence in overseas affairs. The Navy and the Marine Corps have served as the sources of that instrumentality on a day-to-day basis. How? How will they do so in the already- emerging future? Strategy and Policy Thucydides Theorist of War. 31 W illiamson Murray Thucydides did not set out to be a theorist in his account of the Peloponnesian War. Rather, his analysis of the great war between Athens and Sparta helps to clarify not only the events of that war but also fundamental, theoretical truths about the nature and consequences of human conflict. Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War Termination. 47 Karl Walling The ancient historian and political theorist Thucydides supplies a microcosm of warfare, address- ing the fundamental and recurring problems of strategy at all times and places—origins, objectives, and other strategic issues that those who wage war ignore at their peril. But we will never under- stand his work unless we try to understand him on his own terms. Maritime Deception and Concealment Concepts for Defeating Wide-Area Oceanic Surveillance-Reconnaissance-Strike Networks . 87 Jonathan F. Solomon Deception and concealment can help mitigate the risks that an adversary might cripple U.S. for- ward maritime forces in a massive, war-opening strike, achieve in the first days or weeks some fait accompli, or inflict severe losses on maritime forces as they maneuver within a contested zone to retake the initiative. Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2013 5 2 n AVAL WAR COLLEGENaval REV WarIEW College Review, Vol. 66 [2013], No. 4, Art. 1 An Amphibious Capability in Japan’s Self-Defense Force Operationalizing Dynamic Defense . 117 Justin Goldman An amphibious capability would offer Japanese leaders new flexibility, especially in the increas- ingly volatile offshore islands zone—given improvements in equipment, doctrine, and especially interservice integration. Review Essay An Unpersuasive Argument for Overcoming China’s A2AD Capability . 135 A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, by Aaron L. Friedberg reviewed by Marshall Hoyler Book Reviews Fundamentals of War Gaming, by Francis J. McHugh reviewed by Jeff Shaw. 139 The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor reviewed by Jon Scott Logel . 140 Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare, edited by Bruce A. Elleman and S. C. M. Paine reviewed by Peter M. Swartz. 142 State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare 1945–2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen reviewed by Sean Sullivan . 143 Churchill and Seapower, by Christopher M. Bell reviewed by Geoffrey Till . 144 The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan, by James Scott reviewed by Beth F. Coye . 145 In My View . 147 Of Special Interest . 149 Reflections on Reading . 151 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol66/iss4/1 6 Naval War College: Autumn 2013 Full Issue from THE editors The nation’s persisting fiscal crisis continues to pose severe challenges to the mili- tary services of the United States, while at the same time inviting a rethinking of fundamental assumptions about our defense requirements—to repeat a point we made in this place in our last issue. The lead article of that issue addressed possi- ble responses by the Marine Corps to what it called a “period of austerity.” In this issue, Robert C. Rubel turns to the Navy. His broad-ranging, historically focused article, “National Policy and the Post-systemic Navy,” begins from the premise that times of austerity are always times of danger, because they intensify pres- sures from political elites and the public to articulate persuasively overarching strategic concepts that serve to justify the immense costs associated with sustain- ing particular services. Today, as in 1954, 1979, and 1992, altered circumstances confront the Navy with just this challenge, Rubel argues. Over the last decade the Navy has adjusted to the changes in the strategic environment brought about by the fall of the Soviet Union, the war on terror, and globalization by formulating and implementing a new naval strategic concept centered on maritime security cooperation in defense of the global “system.” However, as we look at the rapidly changing international picture, it is far from clear that the current “systemic era” can be sustained indefinitely; accordingly, the Navy needs to be prepared to re- examine and refine—or redefine—its fundamental strategic concept. Robert C. Rubel is dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College. One of the surprises awaiting incoming students at the Naval War College is the attention given in its flagship course (on “strategy and policy”) to a historian who wrote as long ago as the fifth century BC.