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The article of record as published may be found at https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315687803.ch26

The article of record as published may be found at https://www.jstor.org /stable/43960556

Along with several others, the authors believe the nation needs to emphasize a maritime strategy at a time when budgetary limitations threaten to severely curtail the national-defense posture. Former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead has argued that naval-force numbers must be sustained even if groundforce numbers are reduced. A similar appraisal of the advantages of small combatants applies in other regions of the world. Inexpensive missile ships are suitable for joint operations with South Korea in the Yellow Sea where the large, multipurpose warships have not ventured. In the Persian Gulf's very constrained battle space amidst a proliferation of precision weapons a squadron or two of missile corvettes would be as advantageous tactically as a CVN, or SSNs, or DDGs. The Navy and the nation should accept that the short-term budget challenge and its effects on the Fleet are likely to be a long-term constraint. The expanding littoral battle space and shrinking budget together demand the realignment of US Navy forces.

This Concise Theory of Military Combat was prepared by members of The Military Conflict Institute (TMCI) as part of a broader program to publish a series of papers to develop public understanding of the nature of military conflict. TMCI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge of military conflict, war, and military combat to reduce the likelihood and dangers of warfare. Its members pursue the goals of TMCI with no compensation other than professional and personal satisfaction.

The subject of deterrence fell away from the forefront of American strategic thinking during the three decades following the fall of the Soviet Union. Our ability to deter much weaker states by denying them the ability to achieve their aims was long assumed. But today there is a new global security situation that makes it imperative for American military officers and security specialists to begin to relearn the fundamental tenets of this aspect of national security. The purpose of this volume is to contribute to that campaign of learning by drawing on some of the excellent scholarship published in the Naval War College Review during the Cold War and the decades since. Some of the articles included here lay out a few of the fundamentals of the theories of deterrence. ; https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/usnwc-newport-papers/1045/thumbnail.jpg