U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1980s: Selected Documents is the
thirty-third in the Naval War College Press's Newport Papers
monograph series, and the third in a projected four volume set of
authoritative documents relating to U.S. Navy strategy and
strategic planning during and after the Cold War. Edited by John B.
Hattendorf, a distinguished naval historian and chairman of the
Maritime History Department at the Naval War College, this volume
is an indispensable supplement to Professor Hattendorf 's uniquely
informed narrative of the genesis and development of the Navy's
strategy for global war with the Soviet Union, The Evolution of the
U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977-1986, Newport Paper 19 (2004).
It continues the story of the Navy's reaction to the growing Soviet
naval and strategic threats over the decade of the 1970s, as
documented in U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents,
Newport Paper 30 (2007), and sets the stage for the rethinking of
the Navy's role following the demise of the Soviet Union at the end
of the 1980s, as presented in U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1990s:
Selected Documents, Newport Paper 27 (2006). Both of these volumes
were also edited by John Hattendorf. A fourth volume, of documents
on naval strategy from the 1950s and 1960s, will eventually round
out this important and hitherto very imperfectly known history.
This project will make a major contribution not just to the history
of the United States Navy since World War II but also to that of
American military institutions, strategy, and planning more
generally. Including as it does both originally classified
documents and statements crafted for public release, it shows how
the Navy's leadership not only grappled with fundamental questions
of strategy and force structure but sought as well to translate the
strategic insights resulting from this process into a rhetorical
form suited to the public and political arenas. Finally, it should
be noted that all of this is of more than merely historical
interest. In October 2007, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral
Gary Roughead, unveiled (in a presentation to the International
Seapower Symposium at the Naval War College) "A Cooperative
Strategy for 21st Century Seapower," the first attempt by the sea
services of this country to articulate a strategy or vision for
maritime power in the contemporary security environment-a new era
of protracted low-intensity warfare and growing global economic
interdependence. It is too early to tell what impact this document
will have on the Navy, its sister services, allies and others
abroad, or the good order of the global commons. To understand its
meaning and significance, however, there is no better place to
begin than with the material collected in this volume and its
forthcoming successor.
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