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The Defense Revolution: Strategy for the Brave New World by an Arms Controller and an Arms Builder

Kenneth L. Adelman and Norman R. Augustine, San Francisco, CA: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1990. 239 pp. $19.95 ($17.95).

Reviewed by Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)

At a Harvard seminar several years ago, the defense analyst Edward Luttwak proudly identified himself not as a scholar or a strategist, but as a “publi­cist”—that is, a highly articulate pur­veyor of (mostly other people’s) ideas, rather than an original, systematic thinker. In short, he was calling himself a popularizer—a term of abuse among many academics, but a badge of honor in the real world.

The notoriously obscure and jargon- ridden field of national security affairs has produced some outstanding publi­cists; John Keegan, for instance, has in­troduced thousands of laymen to the is­sues of strategy, tactics, and command. Yet good publicists and popularizers are in short supply. This is particularly un­fortunate today, given the crisis in the Persian Gulf and the public’s obvious in­terest in larger defense and foreign policy issues around the world.

The authors of The Defense Revolution are publicists in the best sense of the Word. Ostensibly about how the U.S. military can be downsized safely, The Defense Revolution is in fact a much broader survey of the major national se­curity challenges now facing the United States. The authors are well suited for the task. Kenneth Adelman served as Ronald Reagan’s arms control director; Norman Augustine is the chief executive officer of Martin Marietta and a former top Penta­gon official.

More important, Adelman is a sea­soned writer and polemicist who fleshes °ut with ease and clarity obscure issues such as defense acquisition, nuclear Weapons, and Soviet defense spending. Before joining the Reagan administra- hon, Adelman published widely in con­servative journals, and he has not lost his combative edge. (Adelman is the only defense writer I know of who is unafraid ^to bolster his arguments with quotations from Blaise Pascal, Bertold Brecht, and Yogi Berra.)

Having said that, one must remember that the authors are publicists, and as such, are not advancing any ideas that are particularly new or earth-shattering. At the center of the book is a relatively straightforward argument heard every day inside the Washington’s Capitol Belt­way: the Soviet threat has waned and “the United States may need less de­fense, but the United States still needs capable defense.” With danger looming in the Gulf, they say, “we may forget that events in the Philippines, Kashmir, the Korean Peninsula, Latin America, the cauldron of Africa, and elsewhere can affect U.S. interests and citizens in ways unimaginable today. Threats remain, and we must be prepared.”

In short, the authors argue, we have yet to enter what they term the “Prom­ised Land,” a strife-free Shangri-La where the United States is free to retreat from its global obligations and devote it­self to solving its domestic woes. For one thing, the United States (as Joseph S.

Nye argues in Bound to Lead [Basic Books, 1990]) is the world’s only “full- service superpower”—the one with worldwide cultural and intellectual ap­peal (unlike the Soviet Union and China), full political unity (unlike Western Eu­rope), considerable economic prowess (unlike the Soviet Union and China), vast natural resources (unlike Japan), and glo­bal military might (unlike Japan, China, and Western Europe). For another, isola­tionism simply is not a strong factor any­more in U.S. political life: “U.S. mili­tary involvement abroad no longer faces the gut-level domestic opposition it faced in the immediate post-Vietnam era.”

The authors are particularly good on the Soviet Union. Despite its Third World economic status—more South African blacks own cars than do Soviet citizens, for example—the Soviet Union remains a formidable military power, and, as JCS Chairman Colin Powell has observed, the only one capable of destroying the United States in 30 minutes.

Glasnost and perestroika notwith­standing, there has been little change in Soviet security spending “in support of its outposts around the world and on its own arsenal.” The Kremlin continues to devote a frighteningly large portion of its dwindling treasure to national defense— as much as 25% of its gross domestic product, according to some estimates. It also continues to prop up obnoxious Third World regimes; Cuba and Afghani-

No strife-free Shangri-La yet: earlier this year, Soviet tanks moved through a vehicle barricade around the television tower in Vilnius, while ground troops seized Lithuania’s main broadcast station in a predawn assault. At least 11 people were killed and 100 injured, according to a parliament spokesman.

Naval Aviation Response To World Crises

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stan still receive billions of dollars a year from the Gorbachev administration.

As the Soviet Union unravels, it will be the Third World that poses the biggest threat to U.S. security, the authors argue. Ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons in the hands of irresponsible regimes bid­ding to become “pseudo-superpowers” are particularly menacing. One way to forestall this threat, Adelman and Augus­tine say, would be for presidents Bush and Gorbachev to “try to expand to all countries the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty ban of ballistic missiles with ranges of between 300-3,400 miles—the core of the accord signed by presidents Reagan and Gorbachev in December 1986.”

Yet in general the authors are less than sanguine about nuclear arms control, at least in its classical form, with its “quasipublic discussions” and emphasis on “pactomania, which leads the public to hope or even to expect that parchment can bring peace.” Echoing Winston Churchill, Adelman and Augustine advo­cate “real arms control” without formal agreements. But precisely how this would take place, and over what specific issues, the authors fail to spell out.

With or without arms control agree­ments, Adelman and Augustine argue, it is vital for the United States to continue to develop defensive weapons, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). All one has to do, the authors suggest, is to imagine further chaos inside an increas­ingly fractured Soviet Union—and the Muslim-dominated republic of Kazakh­stan armed with nuclear weapons. De­spite its huge costs and technological uncertainties, SDI may one day “look like the greatest bargain the citizens of our major cities ever bought.”

Eminently sensible, but less interest­ing, are the lengthy portions of the book devoted to defense acquisition. There is little to disagree with here: “waste, fraud and abuse” are much less widespread than the press and Congress have led us to believe; defense technology undoubt­edly remains our most important compar­ative advantage; Congress certainly does micromanage the defense budget.

Yet others have made these points more convincingly, and the authors’ ideas for reform, while sane, suggest a political tin ear, at least when it comes to the legislative branch. In a “memoran­dum” to the members of Congress, for example, the authors urge them to “avoid the natural temptation to micromanage or conduct day-to-day operations yourself— as when you review results of helicopter dynamic tests rather than define a strate­gic deterrent.” What fails to come across to the reader is a sense of why legislators feel compelled to oversee acquisition at that level of detail, and how that compul­sion might be controlled.

These are relatively minor criticisms, however. On the whole, The Defense Revolution is a valuable, well-written publicists’ survey of the national security issues faced by the United States as it leaves the cozy confines of the Cold War and enters a brave new multipolar world.

General Trainor, former military correspondent for The New York Times, is director of the National Se­curity Program and adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The Discovery of the Bismarck

Robert D. Ballard with Rick Archbold. New York: Warner Books, 1990. 231 pp. Photos, lllus. Maps. Ind. $35.00 ($28.00).

Reviewed by James P. Delgado

Ten years ago, Baron Burkard Von Mullenheim-Rechberg penned his survi­vor’s account of the career and loss of KMS Bismarck for the Naval Institute Press. Thus supposedly concluded one of the greatest sea stories of all time, the pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck after the German battleship’s breakout with the Prinz Eugen and their fatal engagement with HMS Hood and Prince of Wales. The story did not end then, however, as demonstrated by the recent revisiting of the battleship in her watery grave in the dark cold depths of the North Atlantic.

Upright and battered, yet amazingly intact, the Bismarck rests in the midst of the debris of the ship’s sinking and an undersea avalanche set off when the mas­sive hulk hit the slope of a submerged mountain. The turrets fell free when the Bismarck capsized, one of them resting inverted and farther down the slope than the ship. The secondary battery remains mounted, many barrels pointing up, while scarred decks, shell holes, and missing superstructure offer mute testi­mony to the Bismarck's fiery and bloody final moments.

The discovery of the Bismarck on 8 June 1989 by a team led by oceanogra­pher Robert D. Ballard of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution stimulated the imagination and recalled the epic saga of the short-lived German warship. In find­ing the Bismarck, Ballard capped his ear­lier success in locating the long-sought Titanic four years earlier. As he did with the ill-fated Titanic, Ballard and collabo­rator Rich Archbold, working with artist Ken Marschall and using color and black- and-white photographs of the wreck, have woven a tale of search, discovery, and history, and a detailed description of the hulk, into an engaging account.

Ballard’s The Discovery of the Bis­marck is a must for the libraries of naval historians, and for anyone interested in shipwrecks and in the last frontier of the deep ocean. The paintings of the wreck, keyed to photographs taken now and then, are the best part of the book; in­deed, when it focuses on the ship and what happened to her, and the lessons learned from examining the hulk, the book is at its best. But Ballard should have given less emphasis to the activities on board the search ships; the fact that the ■ favorite movies watched by a bored sur­vey crew were Zulu and The Terminator is irrelevant.

Moreover, although the technology employed and the search for the vessel are part of the story, they do not deserve equal treatment with the more dramatic story of the battle and its comparison with the material record resting on the ocean floor in the form of the ship and her scat-

Viewed from the port side, the Bismarck’’s wreck reveals that the “armor- plated goliath” suffered major hits during her final battle, most from the guns of HMS Rodney and King George V.

tered debris. In assessing the battle dam­age and how the Bismarck came to settle as she does, Ballard and his team have made an important contribution to the historical record by looking, as archaeol­ogists do, at the physical remnants of human events. It is therefore unfortunate that no archaeologists were part of the team.

The survey’s major conclusion is that scuttling undoubtedly took place, as Ger­man survivors have always insisted, has­tening the battleship’s end. Ballard also emphasizes the loss of the Bismarck's stem, attributing it to a design flaw. Since the ship lies buried in sediment to the waterline, the Bismarck's hull dam­age from torpedoes, including the aerially delivered hit that crippled the rudders, could not be ascertained. This is just one indication of other questions still to be answered through further study of the wreck.

The secrets of the Bismarck in her grave are not yet completely told. Recent study of the Titanic has added to our un­derstanding of that wreck, and I am sure that Dr. Ballard would agree that other nondestructive examinations of the Bis­marck in the name of science, not plun­der, would enhance the story. The tools of science can now unlock the secrets of the deep ocean, the repository of every ship ever lost on the high seas. The coop­eration of archaeologists, historians, and scientists such as Ballard can and should bring more images and stories like this into the limelight for a continually fasci­nated and eager public.

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Books of Interest

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)

Admiral of the Amazon: John Randolph Tucker, His Confederate Colleagues, and Peru

David P. Werlich, Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 368 pp. Photos. Illus. Maps. Gloss. Notes. Bib. Ind. $29.95.

The colorful and unusual subject of this biog­raphy served as a commander in the U.S. Navy, a commodore in the Confederate States Navy, a rear admiral directing the combined fleets of Chile and Peru in their war against Spain, and the president of the Peruvian Hy­drographic Commission of the Amazon. In these varied capacities he saw action at the Civil War battle of Hampton Roads, had the distinction of being the last of Robert E. Lee’s commanders to surrender to the Army of the Potomac, and, with a handpicked team of former Confederates, explored three thousand miles of South American waterways.

Australia’s Navy 1990-91

Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra: Australian Government Printing Service, 1990. 96 pp.

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Although laced with commercial advertise­ments, this beautifully photographed book contains some of the latest information on the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Besides pro­dding a chronology of service high points and ^a pictorial order of battle, articles discuss such fopics as the formulation of an Australian mar- dime defense strategy and RAN mine-warfare operations.

Battleground

W.E.B. Griffin. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, >991. 415 p_p. $19.95.

This fourth novel in Griffin’s successful se- ftes, The Corps, continues the saga of Marines ^ln action by following a colorful group of char­ters into the epic World War II struggle for Guadalcanal. Tom Clancy writes that “Griffin ^ls a storyteller in the grand tradition, and prob­ably the best man around for describing the military community.”

Destroyers for Great Britain

Arnold Hague. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990. 112 pp. Photos. $24.95 ($19.96).

Between the fall of France and the attack on Pearl Harbor, Great Britain stood alone against the Nazi threat. As President of an isolationist

United States, Franklin Roosevelt was able to send a token but important force of 50 destroy­ers to Britain’s aid. They were far from mod­em, having made their first appearance in 1917 and some having served in the previous world war. But they played a vital role in what was ultimately to become an Allied victory. Each of these destroyers is presented in this collection of more than 120 photographs along with a brief account of their role in the war as British or Canadian naval vessels. This book fills a significant gap in World War II naval history.

East-West Relations in the 1990s: The Naval Dimension

John Pay and Geoffrey Till. New York: St.

Martin’s Press, 1991. 331 pp. Maps. Tables, Figs. Gloss. Notes. Ind. $45.00 ($40.50).

One of the Studies in Contemporary Maritime Policy and Strategy series, this collection of authoritative essays looks to the coming de­cade by considering the foreign and defense policies of the superpowers, “the strategic concepts currently animating the two super­power navies,” and the projected effects upon NATO and general European security.

The Fighting Liberty Ships: A Memoir

A. A. Hoehling. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990. 176 pp. Photos. Bib. Ind. $22.00.

This is a first-person account by a gunnery of­ficer who served on two of the approximately 2,700 Liberty ships that played such a vital role in the Allied war effort of World War II. Hoehling’s service took him to the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, and pitted him against the dangers of Nazi subma­rines, Japanese aircraft, and Mother Nature. Witty and poignant, this is a revealing glimpse of a lesser-known aspect of World War II.

For Want of a Nail: The Impact on War of Logistics and Communications

Kenneth Macksey. Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press, 1989. 217 pp. Maps. Figs. Notes. Bib. Ind. $36.00.

Logistics and communications have long been recognized as essential elements of successful strategy, but they are also frequently thought of as unexciting—even boring. Macksey rein­forces the former contention while refuting the latter. This concise volume reviews some of history’s more interesting conflicts while prov­ing that the most successful soldiers are also the ones who understand and maximize the communications and logistical elements. Ranging from the latter half of the 17th cen­tury to present day, Macksey reviews, among many other topics, the impact of rail and water communications during the U.S. Civil War, the triumph of the Berlin Airlift, and the chal­lenges to technology manifested in Vietnam.

Operation Just Cause: Panama,

December 1989

1st Lt. Clarence E. Briggs HI, USA. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1990. 167 pp. Photos.

Maps. Gloss. Bib. Ind. $10.95 ($9.85) paper.

The executive officer of a rifle company in the 82nd Airborne Division provides this eyewit­ness account of the recent U.S. strike into Pan­ama. Reading much like a novel but with the unmistakable ring of authenticity, this concise work offers insight as well as memoir, and gives some worthwhile food for thought re­garding operations of this nature.

Russian Roulette: Afghanistan Through Russian Eyes

Gennady Bocharov. New York: Bessie/Harper Collins, 1990. 188 pp. Ind. $18.95 ($17.05).

Bocharov was known even before perestroika and glasnost as one of the few genuine sources of information about the Afghanistan War— the Soviet’s Vietnam. This short but powerful book views that war through the eyes of those who fought and those who observed it. It reaches beyond that particular war to confirm the more universal aspects of war for those who fight, whether they carry the M-16 or the AK-47.

Special Forces at War: An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975

Shelby L. Stanton. Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, 1990. 385 pp. Photos. Illus. Maps. Bib.

Ind. $55.00.

Hundreds of photographs (many never before published), one of the best collections of full- color maps of Southeast Asia to be found in any book on the subject, reproductions of ac­tual propaganda materials used in psychologi­cal operations, and a comprehensive narrative capture the depth and scope of Green Beret operations during the Vietnam War. Stanton, no stranger to special operations himself and the author of several other books on the Viet­nam War, brings the Special Forces to life, ef­fectively covering the colorful and the more routine activities of these unusual soldiers.

They That Go Down to the Sea: A Bicentennial Pictorial History of the United States Coast Guard

Paul A. Powers. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1990. pp. Photos. Illus. Bib. $35.00.

The history of the least-known and most eclec­tic U.S. armed service is captured in stunning monochrome and full-color photographs and paintings. The exploits of the Revenue Cut­ters, the Life-Saving Service, the Navigation Bureau, and the Lighthouse Service, as well as the Coast Guard’s little-recognized but impor­tant contributions in wartime, are all covered.

Other Titles of Interest

Can Gorbachev Change the Soviet Union?

Zdenek Mlynar. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. 184 pp. Notes. Ind. $28.50 ($25.65).

Death in the Desert: The Namibian Tragedy

Morgan Norval. Washington, DC: Selous Foundation Press, 1989. 318 pp. Photos. Maps. Tables. Append. Ind. $24.95 ($22.45).

Experiences of War: The British Sailor

Kenneth Poolman. New York: Sterling Pub­lishing, 1989. 180 pp. Photos. Ind. $24.95 ($22.50).

The First Air War, 1914-1918

Lee Kennett. New York: The Free Press, 1991. 275 pp. Photos. Notes. Bib. Ind. $24.95 ($22.45).

Gods of War: Memoir of a German Soldier

Hans Werner Woltersdorf. Novato, CA: Pre­sidio Press, 1990. 227 pp. Photos. $22.50 ($20.25).

Inside Intelligence

Anthony Cavendish. London: Collins, 1990. Ind. Order direct: Collins Publishers/8 Grafton Street/London W1X3LA/England.

Pakistan’s Defence Policy, 1947-58

Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema. New York: St. Mar­tin’s Press, 1990. 250 pp. Append. Gloss. Notes. Bib. Ind. $65.00 ($58.50).

Security at Sea: Naval Forces and Arms Control

Richard Fieldhouse, editor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 301 pp. Gloss. Ap­pend. Notes. Bib. Ind. $49.95 ($44.95).

The South Pacific: Emerging Security Issues and U.S. Policy

John C. Dorrance, et al. New York: Brassey’s (U.S.), 1990. 118 pp. Maps. $9.95 ($8.95).

Technology and Strategy: Future Trends

Shai Feldman, editor. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. 134 pp. $20.00 ($18.00) paper.

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