Naval Aviation at Mid-Century

By Commander Malcolm W. Cagle, U.S. Navy
June 1951
Man’s conquest of the air has accelerated so rapidly in recent years that even a professional observer must look sharp to remain current. The Wright Brothers first flew in 1903 ...

Command Relations in Amphibious Warfare

By Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1951
Among the various advantages which command of the sea bestows upon its possessor, one of the most important and certainly the most spectacular is the ability to engage successfully in ...

Strategic Air Warfare

By Rear Admiral R. A. Ofstie, U. S. Navy
June 1951
I THE CONCEPT Strategic warfare, I suppose, is as old as the naval blockade. Or perhaps we might view the city-burning expeditions of the ancient world as strategic warfare of ...

World History And Sea Power

By Admiral S. M. Robinson, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1951
The influence of sea power on world history has certainly been covered by some very illustrious authors. Under these circumstances it might almost seem presumptuous to add anything to this ...

Turkey And Chief Reid

By Lieutenant Commander Burdick H. Brittin, U.S. Navy
June 1951
He stood before the Commander, a big man, with the stripe of a chief petty officer across his face and across his sleeve. Tired eyes and the drawn face seemed ...

Mao Tze Tung - "Sun In The East"

By Commander Samuel B. Griffith, U. S. Marine Corps
June 1951
IA little over a year ago a well-fed gentleman with Mongoloid features who wore a black fur hat with loose ear flaps and a western style overcoat stood near Stalin ...

The Rise And Ruin Of Rabaul

By Commander James C. Shaw, U. S. Navy
June 1951
In the hills behind Rabaul, Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka thought bitterly of the future and regretfully of the past. That very night, April 4, 1944, a submarine was fleeing seaward ...

European Strategy Re-Evaluated

By Ensign E. J. McNulty, U. S. Naval Reserve
June 1951
Introduction The reader is entitled to some intimation as to what he will find in the following pages. This is a re-study of the strategic position confronting the Western Powers ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

June 1951
This html article is produced from an uncorrected text file through optical character recognition. Prior to 1940 articles all text has been corrected, but from 1940 to the present most ...

Book Reviews

June 1951
This html article is produced from an uncorrected text file through optical character recognition. Prior to 1940 articles all text has been corrected, but from 1940 to the present most ...

Professional Notes

June 1951
This html article is produced from an uncorrected text file through optical character recognition. Prior to 1940 articles all text has been corrected, but from 1940 to the present most ...

The U.S. Naval Institute is a private, self-supporting, not-for-profit professional society that publishes Proceedings as part of the open forum it maintains for the Sea Services. The Naval Institute is not an agency of the U.S. government; the opinions expressed in these pages are the personal views of the authors.

Digital Proceedings content made possible by a gift from CAPT Roger Ekman, USN (Ret.)