By the Editor – Over my tenure as Editor if I had, at the end, to pick only one article it would be this one. From the pen of someone who has done more for our Review than perhaps we might imagine, we dismiss or ignore this author’s last word – his three propositions regarding deterrence – at our peril. You, dear reader, must engage in this debate if you believe, as passionately as many of us do, in the future security of our country and its interests. If I have correctly understood our esteemed Editor, the August edition of The Naval Review will be the last in which the printed journal has pr…