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Naval War College: Spring 2016 Full Issue Spring 2016 Volume 69, Number 2 Spring 2016 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2016 1 6749_Spring2016Cover.indd 1 3/11/16 2:13 PM Naval War College Review, Vol. 69 [2016], No. 2, Art. 1 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Spring 2016 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS 686 Cushing Road Newport, RI 02841-1207 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol69/iss2/1 2 0000_FrontMatterA-CMYK.indd 1 3/11/16 10:30 AM Naval War College: Spring 2016 Full Issue NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS ADVISORY BOARD PRESIDENT, NAVAL WAR COLLEGE Adam Bellow Rear Adm. P. Gardner Howe III, USN Seth Cropsey PROVOST Jeffrey Kline Dr. Lewis M. Duncan Gale A. Mattox Robert A. Silano DEAN OF NAVAL WARFARE STUDIES Marin Strmecki Thomas J. Culora Dov S. Zakheim NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS Carnes Lord, Editor NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW EDITORIAL BOARD Robert Ayer, Managing Editor Donald Chisholm Nicole Gresham, Associate Editor Audrey Kurth Cronin Timothy J. 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ISSN 0028-1484 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol69/iss2/1 4 NWC_Spring2016Review.indb 3 3/8/16 10:29 AM Naval War College: Spring 2016 Full Issue Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2016 5 0000_FrontMatterA-CMYK.indd 4 3/11/16 10:30 AM Naval War College Review, Vol. 69 [2016], No. 2, Art. 1 CONTENTS From the Editors . 5 President’s Forum . 9 Leadership The Effect of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 on Naval Strategy, 1987–1994. 21 Steven Wills The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 fundamentally altered the process by which the U.S. Navy de- veloped both strategy and the people involved in creating it, affecting the Navy’s ability to produce war-winning global strategic concepts in response to threats that can no longer be contained by regional planning alone. Asia Rising The 1974 Paracels Sea Battle A Campaign Appraisal . 41 Toshi Yoshihara The Paracels battle of 1974 illustrates a continuity in China’s creative use of naval and nonmilitary instruments of sea power. The apparent efficacy of mixing unorthodox methods with traditional tools of war suggests that China may turn to this playbook again in future confrontations in the South China Sea. Who’s at the Helm? The Past, Present, and Future Leaders of China’s Navy. 66 Jeffrey Becker The PLA Navy is undergoing a substantial leadership transition, from an Old Guard that is fast retiring to a Rising Cohort, to be followed by its Future Leadership, representing a profound shift in professional education, training, international experience, and direct experience with new operations. https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol69/iss2/1 6 NWC_Spring2016Review.indb 1 3/8/16 10:51 AM 2 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEWNaval War College: Spring 2016 Full Issue Naval History The Battle of Quemoy The Amphibious Assault That Held the Postwar Military Balance in the Taiwan Strait . 91 Maochun Miles Yu The 1949 battle of Quemoy, a significant event in the military history of the People’s Republic of China, was not only a turning point for the civil war that remains unresolved across the Taiwan Strait but also the beginning of a chain of events that shaped the Cold War throughout Asia and the Pacific region for decades. National Interest and Moral Responsibility in the Political Thought of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan . 108 Thomas F. X. Varacalli Mahan’s political thought, based on a combination of national interest and moral responsibility, marked him as neither a trigger-happy imperialist nor a rambunctious schoolboy but a sober- minded observer of world affairs. Book Reviews The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective, by Hew Strachan reviewed by Karl Walling . 129 Authority, Ascendancy, and Supremacy: China, Russia, and the United States’ Pursuit of Relevancy and Power, by Gregory O. Hall reviewed by Alexander B. Gray . 131 The Battle of Lake Champlain: A “Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory,” by John H. Schroeder War in the Chesapeake: The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813–14, by Charles Neimeyer reviewed by Richard V. Barbuto . 133 The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics, edited by James Turner Johnson and Eric D. Patterson reviewed by Thomas Grassey. 135 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2016 7 NWC_Spring2016Review.indb 2 3/8/16 10:51 AM Naval War College Review, Vol. 69 [2016], No. 2, Art. 1 CONTENTS 3 Waging War, Planning Peace: U.S. Noncombat Operations and Major Wars, by Aaron Rapport reviewed by Edward Erwin . 136 Outsourcing Security: Private Military Contractors and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Bruce E. Stanley reviewed by Neal H. Bralley. 137 Success and Failure in Limited War: Information & Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf & Iraq Wars, by Spencer D. Bakich reviewed by Derrill T. Goldizen . 139 Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan’s Balloon Bomb Attack on America, by Ross Coen reviewed by John E. Jackson. 141 Reconstructing a Shattered Egyptian Army: War Minister Gen. Mohamed Fawzi’s Memoirs, 1967–1971, edited by Youssef H. Aboul-Enein reviewed by Richard J. Norton. 142 Tarnished: Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Military, by George E. Reed reviewed by Richard J. Norton. 143 The China Dream: Great Power Thinking & Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era, by Liu Mingfu reviewed by Grant Rhode . 145 Logistics in the Falklands War, by Kenneth L. Privratsky reviewed by Cynthia K. Sexton . 146 The East Asian War, 1592–1598: International Relations, Violence, and Memory, edited by James B. Lewis reviewed by Jeffrey Shaw. 148 The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Cooperation, edited by Sam J. Tangredi reviewed by Sean Sullivan . 149 Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, by Karen Armstrong reviewed by Jacqueline E. Whitt . 150 Reflections on Reading . 155 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol69/iss2/1 8 6802_TOC.indd 3 3/9/16 1:54 PM Naval War College: Spring 2016 Full Issue Published by U.S.