Dr. Milan Vego has been professor of operations at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, since 1991. A native of Bosnia & Herzegovina, he obtained political asylum in the United States in 1976. He served for 12 years as a naval officer and four years as 2nd Officer (Deck) in the Merchant Marine. Dr.Vego holds a PhD in Modern European History from George Washington University (1981). He also has a Master Mariner's license (1973). He is the author of four books--"Soviet Navy Today" (1986); "Soviet Naval Tactics" (1992); "Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904-1914" (1996); and "Naval Strate...