John Lehman's Essays, Op-Ed Pieces and Book Reviews

“Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump”

“Getting Back on Top: How to Rebuild the Navy”

“A Campaign Against Bureaucratic Bloat in U.S. Foreign Policy”

“A Life of Service, Lived with Good-Natured Irreverence”

“China, Russia, Iran threaten – New Pearl Harbor”

“US Aircraft Carriers Can Trump Chinese Anti-ship Missiles”

“The U.S. Navy Must Be Everywhere at Once”

“Disarming the Navy Through Bureaucratic Bloat”

“We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Navy: In a World of Many Threats, Our Ships at Sea are as Crucial as Drones”

“Obama Torpedoes the Nuclear Navy”

“What Navy’s New Maritime Strategy Should Say” by John Lehman and Rep. J. Randy Forbes

“More Bureaucrats, Fewer Jets and Ships”

“Blinking Red” by Michael Allen

“Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times” by Lee A. Craig

“Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell ‘Bud’ Zumwalt, Jr.” by Larry Berman

“The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King – The Five Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea” by Walter Borneman

“Not so neutral after all: Ronald Reagan made secret plans…”

“The Seas Are Great but the Navy Is Small”

“Is Naval Aviation Culture Dead?”

“Obama’s Dangerous Spy Game”

“Don’t Expand ROTC”

“How to Pay for a Much Larger Force”

“The Olympia May be Headed to a Watery Grave”

“The Long Road to Annapolis”

“End the Monopolies in Defense Contracts”

“How Obama is Blowing the Terror War”

“The Wrong Way to Build the F-35”

“When 2 is Cheaper Than 1”

“If You Wish for Peace”

“Wasteful Defense Spending is a Clear & Present Danger”

“A Bravura Performance”

“The New Space Race”

“An Identity Crisis We Can Lose”

“Get Smart”

“Are We Any Safer”

“We’re Not Winning the War”

“Jawbreakers”

“A Question of Loyalty”

“Safety in Intelligence” by John Lehman and Bob Kerry

“Getting Spy Reform Wrong”

“No Time to Lose”

“Missing a Chance”

“Power Drive”

“Managing Armed Forces”

“Saboteurs”

“Castles of Steel” by Robert Massie

“The New War” by Bruce Berkowitz

“Degraded into a Trade”

“Blindside” by Jim R. Lane

“The Kennedys At War” by Edward Renehan and E. J. Renehan, Jr.

“Supreme Command” by Eliot Cohen; “Beyond Terror” by Ralph Peters

“The Savage Wars of Peace” by Max Boot

“Soldiers” by Philip Ziegler

“Our Only Defense”

“War in A Time of Peace” by David Halberstam

“Does America Need A Foreign Policy?” by Henry Kissinger

“America’s Military Problems and How to Fix Them” by John Lehman and Harvey Sicherman

“At War at Sea” by Ron Spector; “Ghosts Soldiers” by Hampton Sides; “Nelson Speaks” by Joseph Callo

“Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century” by Richard Hough; “USS Olympia” by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III; “Splinter Fleets” by Theodore R. Treadwell

“USS Cole: An Act of War”

“Horses Don’t Fly” by Frederick Libby; “The Western Front” by Richard Holmes

“MacAuthur’s War” by Stanley Weintraub; “Hot Shots” by Jennie Ethel Chancey & William R. Forstchen

“Admiral Elmo Zumwalt”

“Rapid Escalation: An Overview of Private Equity Investing in the Aerospace and Defense Industry” by John Lehman and Stephen Brooks

“Maritime Supremacy” by Peter Padfield

“Keep the Big Guns” by John Lehman & William Stearman

“The U.S. Navy since 1946” and “Seapower”

“National Assets: IOWA Class”

“The First World War” by John Keegan; “Over There” by Byron Farwell

“Clinton’s Fair-Weather War”

“The Prize of All the Oceans” by Glyndwr Williams

“Blind Man’s Bluff” by Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew; “Fortress America” by William Greider

“Unmanning Our Forces”

“Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell

“Warriors’ Honor” by Michael Ignatieff

“Our Military Condition”

“Citizens Soldiers” by Stephen Ambrose; “The World Within War” by Gerald Linderman; “Blue Helmets” by John Hillen

“Nimitz Class” by Patrick Robinson

“How Our Defense Capability Erodes”

“Last of the Flying Drumsticks”

“Ironclaw” by Sherman Baldwin; “Hazardous Duty” by David Hackworth

“ADM Jeremy Boorda”

“The New World Strategy” by Colonel Harry Summers; “Silent Running” by James Calvert

“Operation Iceberg: The Battle for Okinawa” by Gerald Astor; “The Last Great Victory” by Stanley Weintraub

“The Nightingale’s Song” by Robert Timberg

“Clash of Titans” by Walter Boyne

“Conduct Unbecoming” by Randy Shilts

“Crossing the Line” by Alvin Kernan

“More Precious Than Peace” by Peter Rodham

LCS foreword to “Mighty Midgets”

“Misfire” by W. H. Hallahan

“Britain in Europe”

“On the Origins of War” by Donald Kagan

“Prisoners of the Japanese” by Gordon Daws

“Haiti Operations: Absurd Goals But Good Tactics”

“Debt of Honor” by Tom Clancy

“The History of the Gingerman” by J.P. Donleavy

“D-Day, June 6, 1994” by Stephen Ambrose

“The 37th President, Richard Nixon”

“Out of Control”

“The Rickover Effect” by Theodore Rockwell

“The Truelove” by Patrick O’Brian

“A History of Warfare” by John Keegan

“The Wine Dark Sea” by Patrick O’Brian

“A U.S. Navy for the Post Cold War World”

“Crusade” by Rick Atkinson

“Is the Joint Staff A General Staff”

“Superpower Blues”

“Driven Patriot” by Townsend Hoopes & Douglas Brinkley

“A Chat with John Lehman”

“Long Day’s Journey Into War” by Stanley Weintraub

“It Doesn’t Take a Hero” by Norman Schwarzkopf & Peter Petre

“Anchors Away”

“The Age of Battle” by Russel Weigley; “Fatal Decision” by Carlo D’Este; “Ten Days to Destiny” by John Costello; “Moral Combat: Korea 1950-1953” by John Toland

“U.S. Policy Options: The 1990s and Beyond”

“Lessons from the Gulf Deployment”

“Carriers with Empty Decks”

“Curries & Bugles” by Jennifer Brennan; “The Whole Chili Pepper Book” by David DeWitt & Nancy Gerlash

“The People’s Navy” by Kenneth Hagan

“Under Siege” by Stephen Coonts

“Home Port Buoyed By Cold War’s End”

“Half-Speed American Ahead”

“General of the Army: George C. Marshall” by Ed Cray

“Reserve Forces Critical to Streamlined Navy of the Future”

“The House of Morgan” by Ron Chernow

“The Minotaur” by Stephen Coonts

“The Navy in the 90s”

“In the Pentagon, the Undead Walk”

“Dunkirk” by Norman Gelb

“The Heroic Retreat Was Really a Rout”

“TV vs. Military: It’s An Unfair Fight”

“The Price of Admiralty” by John Keegan

“A New Blueprint for U.S. Forces”

“Lord Nelson” by David & Stephen Horwath

“Preserving Our Military Gains”

“Guns of August” by Barbara Tuchman

“Horatio Nelson” by Tom Popcock

“Record of Achievement: The United States Navy 1981-1987”

“Flight of the Intruder” by Stephen Coonts

“The Navy’s Brash Leader”

“The Revolutionary Process: Ireland, A Case Study”

“Reflections on the Middle East”

“Reflections on the Non Proliferation Treaty”