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

“Lehman’s Maritime Triumph” by Dov Zakheim

Date:
August 20, 2024
Publication:
Naval War College Review

“Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump”

Date:
March 17, 2024
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
January 7, 2022
Publication:
Proceedings Magazine

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

Date:
February 18, 2020
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
August 26, 2018
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
November 30, 2017
Publication:
Asia Times

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

Date:
November 30, 2017
Publication:
Asia Times

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

Date:
April 28, 2017
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Disarming the Navy Through Bureaucratic Bloat”

Date:
December 25, 2015
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
May 22, 2015
Publication:
New York Daily News

“Obama Torpedoes the Nuclear Navy”

Date:
May 15, 2015
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
March 15, 2015
Publication:
Breaking Defense

John Lehman and Rep. J. Randy Forbes: “American Seapower for the 21st Century”

Date:
September 2, 2014
Publication:
National Review

“More Bureaucrats, Fewer Jets and Ships”

Date:
December 29, 2013
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Blinking Red” by Michael Allen

Date:
December 9, 2013
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
August 6, 2013
Publication:
Washington Post

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

Date:
December 8, 2012
Publication:
Washington Post

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

Date:
June 29, 2012
Publication:
Washington Post

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

Date:
June 18, 2012
Publication:
Daily Mail (UK)

“The Seas Are Great but the Navy Is Small”

Date:
April 27, 2012
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Is Naval Aviation Culture Dead?”

Date:
September 1, 2011
Publication:
Proceedings

“Obama’s Dangerous Spy Game”

Date:
May 26, 2011
Publication:
Daily Beast

“Don’t Expand ROTC”

Date:
January 28, 2011
Publication:
Washington Post

“How to Pay for a Much Larger Force”

Date:
August 31, 2010
Publication:
National Journal

“The Olympia May be Headed to a Watery Grave”

Date:
August 22, 2010
Publication:
Philadelphia Inquirer

“The Long Road to Annapolis”

Date:
August 7, 2010
Publication:
Washington Post

“End the Monopolies in Defense Contracts”

Date:
August 6, 2010
Publication:
Washington Post

“How Obama is Blowing the Terror War”

Date:
January 19, 2010
Publication:
Daily Beast

“The Wrong Way to Build the F-35”

Date:
October 1, 2009
Publication:
New York Post

“When 2 is Cheaper Than 1”

Date:
August 6, 2009
Publication:
Defense News

“If You Wish for Peace”

Date:
July 21, 2009
Publication:
New York Post

“Wasteful Defense Spending is a Clear & Present Danger”

Date:
July 19, 2009
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“A Bravura Performance”

Date:
November 11, 2007
Publication:
Proceedings

“The New Space Race”

Date:
June 6, 2007
Publication:
USA Today

“An Identity Crisis We Can Lose”

Date:
May 8, 2007
Publication:
Washington Post

“Get Smart”

Date:
November 26, 2006
Publication:
Washington Post

“Are We Any Safer”

Date:
September 1, 2006
Publication:
Proceedings

“We’re Not Winning the War”

Date:
August 31, 2006
Publication:
Washington Post

“Jawbreakers”

Date:
February 12, 2006
Publication:
Washington Post

“A Question of Loyalty”

Date:
December 31, 2004
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Safety in Intelligence” John Lehman and Bob Kerry

Date:
November 30, 2004
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Getting Spy Reform Wrong”

Date:
November 16, 2004
Publication:
Washington Post

“No Time to Lose”

Date:
October 1, 2004
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Missing a Chance”

Date:
May 26, 2004
Publication:
New York Times

“Power Drive”

Date:
April 24, 2004
Publication:
Washington Post

“Managing Armed Forces”

Date:
February 25, 2004
Publication:
Magdalene College

“Saboteurs”

Date:
February 22, 2004
Publication:
Washington Post

“Castles of Steel” by Robert Massie”

Date:
November 30, 2003
Publication:
Philadelphia Inquirer

“The New War” by Bruce Berkowitz

Date:
March 21, 2003
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Degraded into a Trade”

Date:
January 6, 2003
Publication:
Washington Post

“Blindside” by Jim R. Lane

Date:
October 9, 2002
Publication:
Philadelphia Inquirer

“The Kennedy’s At War” by Edward Renehan and E. J. Renehan, Jr.

Date:
August 27, 2002
Publication:
Proceedings

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

Date:
June 27, 2002
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The Savage Wars of Peace” by Max Boot

Date:
June 16, 2002
Publication:
Philadelphia Inquirer

“Soldiers” by Philip Ziegler

Date:
March 11, 2002
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Our Only Defense”

Date:
December 1, 2001
Publication:
American Heritage

“War in A Time of Peace” by David Halberstam

Date:
September 28, 2001
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
July 15, 2001
Publication:
Philadelphia Inquirer

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

Date:
June 1, 2001
Publication:
Policy Research Institute

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

Date:
May 24, 2001
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
March 8, 2001
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“USS Cole: An Act of War”

Date:
October 14, 2000
Publication:
Washington Post

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

Date:
August 16, 2000
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
May 26, 2000
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Admiral Elmo Zumwalt”

Date:
May 1, 2000
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
March 15, 2000
Publication:
Journal of Private Equity

“Maritime Supremacy” by Peter Padfield

Date:
March 14, 2000
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
January 20, 2000
Publication:
Proceedings

The U. S. Navy since 1946 and Seapower” 

Publisher: Oxford Companion, American Military History 2000

Date:
January 6, 2000
Publication:
Oxford Companion, American Military History,

“National Assets: IOWA Class”

Date:
October 1, 1999
Publication:
Armed Forces Journal

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

Date:
June 17, 1999
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Clinton’s Fair-Weather War”

Date:
May 28, 1999
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The Prize of All the Oceans” by Glyndwr Williams

Date:
January 1, 1999
Publication:
London

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

Date:
November 11, 1998
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Unmanning Our Forces”

Date:
October 12, 1998
Publication:
Daily Telegraphe

“Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell

Date:
May 1, 1998
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Warriors’ Honor” by Michael Ignatieff

Date:
February 24, 1998
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Our Military Condition”

Date:
January 10, 1998
Publication:
American Spectator

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

Date:
December 22, 1997
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Nimitz Class” by Patrick Robinson

Date:
November 1, 1997
Publication:
Proceedings

“How Our Defense Capability Erodes”

Date:
September 8, 1997
Publication:
Navy Times

“Last of the Flying Drumsticks”

Date:
February 28, 1997
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
September 17, 1996
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“ADM Jeremy Boorda”

Date:
May 21, 1996
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
March 15, 1996
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
August 29, 1995
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The Nightingale’s Song” by Robert Timberg

Date:
July 21, 1995
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Clash of Titans” by Walter Boyne

Date:
June 1, 1995
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Conduct Unbecoming” by Randy Shilts

Date:
May 18, 1995
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Crossing the Line” by Alvin Kernan

Date:
April 30, 1995
Publication:
Air and Space Museum

“More Precious Than Peace” by Peter Rodham

Date:
April 3, 1995
Publication:
Nat'l Review

LCS foreword to “Mighty Midgets”

Date:
March 16, 1995
Publication:
Turner Publications

“Misfire” by W. H. Hallahan

Date:
March 9, 1995
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Britain in Europe”

Date:
February 28, 1995
Publication:
London Times

“On the Origins of War” by Donald Kagan

Date:
February 13, 1995
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Prisoners of the Japanese” by Gordon Daws

Date:
November 15, 1994
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Haiti Operations: Absurd Goals But Good Tactics”

Date:
September 20, 1994
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Debt of Honor” by Tom Clancy

Date:
September 2, 1994
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
July 19, 1994
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
June 6, 1994
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The 37th President, Richard Nixon”

Date:
April 26, 1994
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Out of Control”

Date:
March 17, 1994
Publication:
National Interest

“The Rickover Effect”, by Theodore Rockwell

Date:
December 31, 1993
Publication:
Orbis

“A History of Warfare” by John Keegan

Date:
December 1, 1993
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The Truelove” by Patrick O’Brian

Date:
December 1, 1993
Publication:
Armchair Historian

“The Wine Dark Sea” by Patrick O’Brian

Date:
November 3, 1993
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
October 14, 1993
Publication:
World & I

“Crusade” by Rick Atkinson

Date:
October 12, 1993
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Is the Joint Staff A General Staff”

Date:
August 31, 1993
Publication:
Armed Forces Journal

“Superpower Blues”

Date:
July 1, 1993
Publication:
Institute for Defense Research

“Driven Patriot” by Townsend Hoopes & Douglas Brinkley

Date:
May 1, 1992
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“A Chat with John Lehman”

Date:
November 8, 1991
Publication:
Inside the Navy

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

Date:
October 21, 1991
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
October 15, 1991
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Anchors Away”

Date:
October 7, 1991
Publication:
Insight

“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

Date:
October 3, 1991
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
September 18, 1991
Publication:
ANNALS

“Lessons from the Gulf Deployment”

Date:
March 20, 1991
Publication:
Intercollegiate Review

“Carriers with Empty Decks”

Date:
February 18, 1991
Publication:
Los Angeles Times

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

Date:
February 14, 1991
Publication:
CS Monitor

“The People’s Navy” by Kenneth Hagan

Date:
February 2, 1991
Publication:
Book World

“Under Siege” by Stephen Coonts

Date:
October 8, 1990
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Home Port Buoyed By Cold War’s End”

Date:
September 29, 1990
Publication:
New York Times

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

Date:
July 5, 1990
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Half-Speed American Ahead”

Date:
July 5, 1990
Publication:
Heritage Foundation

“Reserve Forces Critical to Streamlined Navy of the Future”

Date:
March 5, 1990
Publication:
Mail Call

“The House of Morgan” by Ron Chernow

Date:
March 4, 1990
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The Minotaur” by Stephen Coonts

Date:
January 1, 1990
Publication:
Proceedings

“The Navy in the 90s”

Date:
October 30, 1989
Publication:
Defense World

“In the Pentagon, the Undead Walk”

Date:
October 18, 1989
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The Heroic Retreat Was Really a Rout”

Date:
October 9, 1989
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Dunkirk” by Norman Gelb

Date:
October 9, 1989
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

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

Date:
August 4, 1989
Publication:
TV Guide

“The Price of Admiralty” by John Keegan

Date:
April 16, 1989
Publication:
Book World

“A New Blueprint for U.S. Forces”

Date:
March 26, 1989
Publication:
New York Times

“Lord Nelson,” by David & Stephen Horwath

Date:
March 24, 1989
Publication:
CS Monitor

“Preserving Our Military Gains”

Date:
March 1, 1989
Publication:
Speech

“Guns of August” by Barbara Tuchman

Date:
October 27, 1988
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Horatio Nelson” by Tom Popcock

Date:
July 7, 1988
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“Flight of the Intruder” by Stephen Coonts

Date:
December 1, 1986
Publication:
Wall Street Journal

“The Navy’s Brash Leader”

Date:
December 15, 1985
Publication:
The New York Times

“The Revolutionary Process: Ireland, A Case Study”

Date:
January 10, 1969
Publication:
Orbis, FPRI

“Reflections on the Middle East”

Date:
January 3, 1969
Publication:
Orbis, FPRI

“Reflections on the Non Proliferation Treaty”

Date:
February 1, 1968
Publication:
Orbis, FPRI