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Naval War College: Full Autumn 2010 Issue NAVAL WAR C OLLEG EREVIEW NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Autumn 2010 Volume 63, Number 4 Autumn 2010 Autumn Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2010 1 _Cover.indd 1 8/9/2010 1:14:21 PM Naval War College Review, Vol. 63 [2010], No. 4, Art. 1 Cover Details from the “Black Ship scrolls,” created in Japan soon after the visits of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry’s squadron in 1853 and 1854. Digitized copies of the original scrolls, on long-term loan from the Preserva- tion Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, are on display at the Naval War College Museum. They appear in an attractive new exhibit space on the fi rst fl oor produced by moving the Naval War College Foundation’s Museum Store to an expanded site in the Museum’s fi rst-fl oor west wing. Shown are USS Saratoga (up- per left), USS Powhatan (upper right), USS Susquehanna (lower left), and USS Lexington (lower right). See our “From the Editors” department in this issue for related, exciting developments at Found- ers Hall. Courtesy Naval War College Museum. https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol63/iss4/1 2 _Cover.indd 2 8/9/2010 1:14:23 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Naval War College: Full Autumn 2010 Issue NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Autumn 2010 Volume 63, Number 4 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS 686 Cushing Road Newport, RI 02841-1207 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2010 3 NWCR_Autumn2010.ps C:\Documents and Settings\john.lanzieri.ctr\Desktop\NavalWarCollege\NWC_Review_Autumn2010\NWCR_Autumn2010.vp Friday, August 13, 2010 2:49:14 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Naval War College Review, Vol. 63 [2010], No. 4, Art. 1 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE PRESS ADVISORY BOARD PRESIDENT, NAVAL WAR COLLEGE Adam Bellow Rear Adm. James P. Wisecup, USN Capt. Wayne P. Hughes, USN (Ret.) PROVOST Jeffrey Kline Amb. Mary Ann Peters Gale A. Mattox Robert A. 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ISSN 0028-1484 Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2010 5 NWCR_Autumn2010.ps C:\Documents and Settings\john.lanzieri.ctr\Desktop\NavalWarCollege\NWC_Review_Autumn2010\NWCR_Autumn2010.vp Friday, August 13, 2010 2:49:14 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Naval War College Review, Vol. 63 [2010], No. 4, Art. 1 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol63/iss4/1 6 NWCR_Autumn2010.ps C:\Documents and Settings\john.lanzieri.ctr\Desktop\NavalWarCollege\NWC_Review_Autumn2010\NWCR_Autumn2010.vp Friday, August 13, 2010 2:49:15 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Naval War College: Full Autumn 2010 Issue CONTENTS From the Editors. 5 Remarks of Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates . 9 President’s Forum. 19 Programs vs. Resources Some Options for the Navy . 25 Ronald O’Rourke If the U.S. Navy’s budget does not increase in real terms, the prospect over the longer run is for a fleet with advanced capabilities for performing missions but too few ships and aircraft to perform them simultaneously in all desired areas. Policy makers addressing this situation could face difficult choices among options that present feasibility challenges or have their own potential downsides. Talking about Sea Control . 38 Robert C. Rubel For two decades the U.S. Navy has enjoyed total command of the sea, so much so that it has stopped talking about sea control, even to the extent of forgetting how to. The time has come to rediscover the discipline, yet again. Allied Navies The Canadian Navy and Canada’s National Interests in This Maritime Century . 49 Vice Admiral Dean McFadden, Canadian Navy Adversaries have learned to integrate the warfare traditions of Clausewitz and Mao Zedong and to organize all means of violence—criminal, irregular, and conventional—to achieve their political ends. There are important implications in this for Canada’s maritime forces, including the fundamental capacity to fight and prevail in combat at sea against a potentially far broader and more comprehensive range of threats than ever before. A Private Security Solution to Somali Piracy? The U.S. Call for Private Security Engagement and the Implications for Canada. 56 Christopher Spearin Recently expressed U.S. interest in encouraging commercial shippers to rely on private security companies against pirates is a matter of concern, both in practical terms and in fundamental terms of “who does what” at sea. Published by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 2010 7 NWCR_Autumn2010.ps C:\Documents and Settings\john.lanzieri.ctr\Desktop\NavalWarCollege\NWC_Review_Autumn2010\NWCR_Autumn2010.vp Friday, August 13, 2010 2:49:15 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 2 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW Naval War College Review, Vol. 63 [2010], No. 4, Art. 1 Taming the Outlaw Sea . 73 Admiral James G. Stavridis, U.S. Navy, and Lieutenant Commander Richard E. LeBron, U.S. Navy Piracy in the Horn of Africa presents the international community with a complex and multidimensional challenge but also with a golden opportunity to come together and work collaboratively to solve it. China’s “Antiaccess” Ballistic Missiles and U.S. Active Defense . 84 Marshall Hoyler Asymmetries in the competition of Chinese ballistic missiles versus U.S. antiballistic missiles make it unlikely that active defense alone will succeed. The United States needs to consider a broad menu of alternatives. The Most Daring Act of the Age Principles for Naval Irregular Warfare . 106 Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Navy The 1804 burning of the captured frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor was an early example of U.S. Navy irregular warfare, and it suggests principles that will be valuable in the irregular warfare that the Navy is likely face in the years to come.