U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents, edited by
John Hattendorf, is the thirtieth in the Newport Paper monograph
series and the second in a projected four volume set of
authoritative documents on U.S. Navy strategy and strategic
planning. The first volume in this series, U.S. Naval Strategy in
the 1990s: Selected Documents, Newport Paper 27, also edited by
Professor Hattendorf, appeared in September 2006. The current
volume was originally intended to include documents relating to the
development of the Navy's "Maritime Strategy" during the 1980s, but
the bulk of relevant material has made it advisable to dedicate a
separate volume to that period; this is due to appear shortly. A
final volume will then cover documents from the 1950s and
1960s.When combined with Professor Hattendorf 's authoritative
narrative of the genesis and development of the "Maritime
Strategy," The Evolution of the U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy,
1977-1986, Newport Paper 19, these volumes will provide for the
first time a comprehensive picture of the evolution of high-level
U.S. Navy (and to some extent U.S. Marine Corps) strategic thinking
over the half-century following the end of World War II. Many of
the documents reprinted here were-and were intended to be-public
statements. In all cases, however, these documents remain little
known and mostly inaccessible, certainly outside the Navy itself.
It is important to emphasize that they need to be read with careful
attention to their historical and institutional contexts. They are
in any case not always easy to interpret, and they differ
substantially in the weight they carried at the time or later. For
these reasons, we have felt it essential to present the documents
accompanied by a general introductory essay that locates them in
their appropriate contexts, as well as by brief commentaries on
each providing additional pertinent information and attempting to
assess their wider significances. This project, it is hoped, will
contribute importantly not just to our understanding of our recent
naval history but also to the serious study of military
institutions, strategy, and planning more generally. Also, it is
worth noting that this material is of more than merely historical
interest. The U.S. Navy (with its sister sea services, the Marine
Corps and the Coast Guard) is currently on the verge of completing
a major review of its naval and maritime strategy in a new era of
protracted low-intensity warfare and growing global economic
interdependence. This exercise, whatever the immediate result may
prove to be, has unquestionably served the valuable purpose of
stimulating serious thought about fundamental strategic issues at
many levels throughout the Navy. These volumes can be expected to
be an important resource in a continuing process of strategic
assessment and education as the Navy continues to adjust to a
rapidly evolving security environment.
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