Selected publications by William D. O'Neil

Selected open publications:

• “Blocking the Strait of Hormuz: Costs and Difficulties,” International Security 33, No. 3 (Winter 2008/9): 190-8. (Subscription/pay link. See summary.)
• "Cyberspace and Infrastructure," Chapter 5 of Cyberpower and National Security, ed. by Franklin D. Kramer, Stuart H. Starr, and Larry Wentz (Washington: National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, 2009). 
• “Mitchell, Billy,” American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000, Revised Oct. 2007.
• “The Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC): Transforming Naval Anti-air Warfare,” Case Studies in National Security Transformation, Number 11 (National Defense University), 2007.
• “Transformation and the Officer Corps: Analysis in the Historical Context of the U.S. and Japan Between the World Wars,” CNA D0012589.A1, for Director of Net Assessment, DoD, 2005.
• Articles on aircraft design, fuel cells, missiles, radar, and shells and bombs in Encyclopedia of 20^th-Century Technology, ed. C. A. Hempstead and W. E. Worthington (Routledge, 2005).
• “If it Can’t Be Big, It Needs to Be Novel” Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute (Dec 2003): 47-51.  (Technical and operational options for small naval vessels.)
• “Military Transformation as a Competitive Systemic Process: The Case of Japan and the United States Between the World Wars,” CNA D0008616.A1, for Director of Net Assessment, DoD, 2003.
• “Interwar U.S. and Japanese National Product and Defense Expenditure,” CNA D0007249.A1, for Director of Net Assessment, DoD, 2003.
• “The Naval Services,” in Transforming America’s Military, ed. H. Binnendijk (NDU Press, 2002).
• “Transformation, Billy Mitchell Style” Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute (Mar 2002): 100-4.
• “Oil as a Strategic Factor: The supply of oil in the first half of the 21^st century, and its strategic implications for the U.S.,” CNA D0004604.A21, 2001.
• “Revolutionary prospects: Will there be a ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ (RMA)? Should there be? What truly is needed?” CNA, 2001.
• “Innovating for 21st Century Naval Operations,” (conference paper, 1997).
• “Technology and Maritime Forces,” in Defense Technology, ed. A. A. Clark & J. F. Lilley (Praeger, 1987).
• “The Godwin ‘Follies’: Any Real News?” Defense News, Oct 12, 1987. (Problems in acquisition management.)
• "Technology and Naval War" (Washington: Department of Defense, 1981).
• “Naval Antiair Warfare,” National Defense (Feb 1981).
• “Naval Ship Technology in the 80s and 90s,” (conference paper, 1981).
• The Libyan Kill, a novel (W.W. Norton & Co., 1981).
• “Land-Based Aircraft Options for Naval Missions,” SAE Conference paper, 1977.
• “Advanced Naval Vehicles: Who Needs Them?” Marine Technology (Oct 1977): 387-90.
• “Gun Systems for Air Defense” Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute, (Mar 1971): 45-55.
• with J. R. Holdsworth, “On the Adjustment of Indirect Fires By Use of Quasilinearization” (Conference paper, 1969).

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Limited circulation unclassified reports on subjects including detailed assessments of selected defense acquisition programs. Inquire if you have a need to see one of these.

Many publications and papers of very widely varying classification levels, some of which led or contributed to very advanced technology systems for defense.

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