Naval History Magazine - August 2006 Volume 20, Number 4

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Piddly Poom to Spectacular Boom
Issue: Naval History Magazine - August 2006 Volume 20, Number 4
By: Rear Admiral Odale D. Waters Jr.



"Just a piddly 'poom,'" was how the commander of the USS Laffey, one of the ships participating in Operation...

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Piddly Poom to Spectacular Boom



"Just a piddly 'poom,'" was how the commander of the USS Laffey...

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Waging War with Cardboard Navies

Sidebar: Board vs. Computer Games

Long-used by the U.S. Navy as educational and training...

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Roosevelt's Pursuit of a Temperate Caribbean Policy

Many observers maintain that military force was Theodore Roosevelt's foreign-policy tool of first resort. However, in the...

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This issue of Naval History commemorates the 60th anniversary of an event that signaled the U...

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