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Naval War College Review Volume 65 Number 2 Spring Article 1 2012 Spring 2012 Full Issue The U.S. Naval War College Follow this and additional works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review Recommended Citation Naval War College, The U.S. (2012) "Spring 2012 Full Issue," Naval War College Review: Vol. 65 : No. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol65/iss2/1 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]. Naval War College: Spring 2012 Full Issue NAVAL WAR C OLLEGE REVIEW NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Spring 2012 Volume 65, Number 2 Spring 2012 Spring Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2012 1 NNWC_Spring2012_Cover.inddWC_Spring2012_Cover.indd 1 33/22/2012/22/2012 110:01:480:01:48 AAMM Naval War College Review, Vol. 65 [2012], No. 2, Art. 1 Cover The Mark 45 five-inch/54-caliber lightweight gun on the forecastle of the Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76), on 22 March 2011 in the Arabian Gulf. Higgins was deployed with the Carl Vinson Car- rier Strike Group. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cdr. Alex T. Mabini, USN. https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol65/iss2/1 2 NNWC_Spring2012_Cover.inddWC_Spring2012_Cover.indd 2 33/22/2012/22/2012 110:01:500:01:50 AAMM Naval War College: Spring 2012 Full Issue NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Spring 2012 Volume 65, Number 2 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS 686 Cushing Road Newport, RI 02841-1207 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2012 3 Naval War College Review, Vol. 65 [2012], No. 2, Art. 1 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 NAVAL 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. 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ISSN 0028-1484 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2012 5 Naval War College Review, Vol. 65 [2012], No. 2, Art. 1 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol65/iss2/1 6 Naval War College: Spring 2012 Full Issue CONTENTS From the Editors . 3 President’s Forum . 7 Networking the Global Maritime Partnership . 11 Stephanie Hszieh, George Galdorisi, Terry McKearney, and Darren Sutton The difficulties of multinational naval networking are greater today, and require solutions more urgently, than ever. The work of a five-nation technical cooperation program offers a promising model for addressing them effectively. Taking Mines Seriously Mine Warfare in China’s Near Seas . 30 Scott C. Truver China has a large, growing, and modernizing capability for naval mines, one that could greatly hin- der U.S. operations in any Taiwan scenario. China’s mine-countermeasures capacity is less robust— but so, unfortunately, is the corresponding offensive mining capacity of the United States. Leadership and Decision What Military Officers Need to Know about Civil-Military Relations . 67 Mackubin Thomas Owens How informed are civilian leaders when they choose to commit the military instrument? How well does the prevailing pattern of civil-military relations enable the integration of divergent and even contradictory views? Does this pattern ensure a practical military strategy that properly serves the ends of national policy? American Civil-Military Relations Samuel P. Huntington and the Political Dimensions of Military Professionalism . 88 Dayne E. Nix, PhD Huntington held that the American constitutional system inevitably draws military leaders into the political process. Has the result been a “troubled quality” in American civil-military relations or proof of the vitality of the constitutional system? Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2012 7 2 NAVAL WAR COLLEGENaval War REVIEW College Review, Vol. 65 [2012], No. 2, Art. 1 A Remarkable Military Feat The Hungnam Redeployment, December 1950 . 105 Donald Chisholm The requirement for amphibious withdrawal does not come along often, but when it does, there is little better guidance than how it was done in December 1950 in Korea—when it had to be done on short notice, on a large scale, and under fire. The South African Navy and African Maritime Security . 145 Deane-Peter Baker History, budgetary constraints, and national policy choices have left the South African Navy unable to contribute substantially to the region’s maritime security. There is hope for change, however, and a possible way forward. Review Essay A Relatively Indecisive War . 167 1812: The Navy’s War, by George C. Daughan reviewed by Jack A. Gottschalk Book Reviews The Perfect Wreck—“Old Ironsides” and HMS Java: A Story of 1812, by Steven Maffeo reviewed by Phillip S. Meilinger . 171 Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel reviewed by Grant F. Rhode . 172 America’s Challenge: Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty-First Century, by Michael D. Swaine reviewed by Lyle Goldstein . 174 Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits: How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World, by John Arquilla reviewed by Frederick H. Black, Jr. 175 Cultural Heritage, Ethics and the Military, edited by Peter G. Stone reviewed by Timothy J. Demy . 176 Whirlwind: The Air War against Japan, 1942–1945, by Barrett Tillman reviewed by David L. Teska . 177 Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership That Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe, by Jonathan W. Jordan reviewed by Richard Norton . 178 Of Special Interest . .181 Reflections on Reading . 183 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol65/iss2/1 8 Naval War College: Spring 2012 Full Issue FROM THE EDITORS At the Twentieth International Seapower Symposium, held at the Naval War College in October 2011, one thing was strikingly clear: among the leaders of many of the world’s navies today there is a growing embrace of the vision of maritime security cooperation first enunciated by former Chief of Naval Op- erations Admiral Michael Mullen under the label of the “thousand-ship navy.” In our lead article, “Networking the Global Maritime Partnership,” Stephanie Hszieh, George Galdorisi, Terry McKearney, and Darren Sutton explore this vi- sion and the obstacles that continue to stand in the way of its realization. The rapid evolution of communications and sensor technologies is, ironically, one such obstacle, because one of its major effects is to increase the gap between the capabilities enjoyed by the U.S.