本书以英语在军事领域中的应用为主要内容，突出提高使用者的军事英语知识和培养在军事领域中应用英语的能力。本教程适合完成基础英语学习、通过大学英语四级考试、具有中级英语水平的军队院校学员使用，也适合具有同等英语水平的部队官兵使用。本教程可作为正式教材，用于军队院校的专业英语教学、部队指挥与科技干部的继续教育以及部队官兵科技练兵的英语教学与培训，也可作为普及军事专业知识的中级英语读物。还可作为总参军训部组织制作的军队院校重点网络课程“军事英语”的配套教材使用。

Lesson 1 "Sea Power 21"

     --Projecting Decisive Joint Capabilities

Lesson 2 Joint Operational Art Is Alive

Lesson 3 Expeditionary Strike Group Put a Marine

     in Charge

Lesson 4 Layered Air Defenses: Protecting the Fleet

Lesson 5 Military Sealift Command Extends Navy's

     Global Reach

Lesson 6 Streeffighter Cannot Do the Job

Lesson 7 Striker Beneath the Sea

Lesson 8 Shipborne Helicopters

     --The CO's Extended Arm

Lesson 9 STOVL JSFs Put Teeth in Sea Basing

Lesson 10 What Lies Beneath

Lesson 11 Rediscover the Art of Command and Control

Lesson 12 A Global Navy Needs a Global Network

Lesson 13 Strategic and Tactical Naval Communications

Lesson 14 The Role of Electronic Warfare in Naval Warfaree

Lesson 15 Manned Reconnaissance Must Continue

Lesson 16 Navigating Against Terrorism

Lesson 17 Electricity Shifts the Currents of Ship Propulsion

Lesson 18 Naval Rail Guns Are Revolutionary

Lesson 19 When Precision Weapons Are Ballast

Lesson 20 Stealth and Signature Management

Appendix 1 Military Terms

Appendix 2 Military Acronyms and Initialisms

Appendix 3 Vocabulary

Appendix 4 PhoneticSymbols