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From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Volume I
By Arthur J. Marder. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. Illustrated. 459 plus xxii pages. $10.00.
REVIEWED BY
Raymond V. B. Blackman
(Mr. Blackman has been the Editor of Jane’s Fighting Ships since 1949, and is the author of The World’s Warships and The Modern World Book of Ships. Throughout World War II he was in the Admiralty Mine Design Department, HMS Vernon.)
Not many people could pick up this book without a tinge of excitement. Any volume dealing with Lord Fisher, that king of navalists, who abdicated when his sovereign power was usurped by the emperor of naval- ism, Winston Churchill, is almost bound to be good. The kaleidoscope of events of the period interlocked with the cavalcade of prominent people of the time in the circles in which “Jacky” Fisher moved provide a fund of material with which an author can hardly go wrong. But in the hands of an erudite professor, with a gift for storytelling and a lively appreciation of what makes history, a chronicle has been turned into an epic.
Pervading this authoritative work is the panorama of British naval might before it was tested in war. Throughout the volume, there is evidence of Professor Marder’s extraordinary knowledge and understanding of British naval organization of the “Fisher Era.” His fine study goes right to the roots of the dreadnought concept.
Pricking the bubble of pride and confidence of most Englishmen in the Royal Navy, the author says, “In reality the British Navy, at the end of the nineteenth century, had run in a rut for nearly a century. Though numerically a very imposing force, it was in certain respects a drowsy, inefficient, moth- eaten organism.” Even that great ship-lover Fred T. Jane, the naval expert and first Ed
itor of Fighting Ships, called the Reserve Squadron “an absolute disgrace to a naval power.”
It needed a combination of a Fisher and Dreadnought and all that this materiel revolution brought in its train to shake the Navy out of its lethargy, but one wonders to what degree Dreadnought really was the brain-child of Admiral Sir John Fisher. As the author says, “In the 1903 Jane’s Fighting Ships there appeared an article by Colonel Cuniberti, the Italian naval constructor, on ‘An Ideal Warship for the British Navy.’ His design foreshadowed the main features of the dreadnought type: the all-big-gun armament and a speed superior to that of all battleships afloat. It is very likely that Fisher read this article, which was widely commented on in the service press, and that it strongly influenced his thinking.”
Again: “One shudders to think what the Navy’s chances might have been but for his (Fisher’s) work in the first decade of the century.” Of the fleet assembled for the grand naval review in July 1914, it was said, “All that is best and most modern here is the creation of Lord Fisher.” Winston Churchill, no uncritical admirer of Fisher, said, “There is no doubt whatever that Fisher was right B1 nine-tenths of what he fought for. His great reforms sustained the power of the Royal Navy at the most critical period in its history.” It was the contingent four capital ships
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of 1909 that gave the Navy its rather bare margin of security in the critical early months of the war. These were four dreadnoughts of the “We want eight, and we won’t wait” slogan of the hour.
While Dreadnought was being built, Fred T. Jane pointed out in his Heresies of Sea Power, 1906, the logical fallacy in the reasoning of the Mahanites; the guerre de course (or strategy of commerce destruction) had never been attempted against a power so vulnerable to it as England had become by the 20th century. Fisher predicted the U-boat piracy of the war, but the possibility of the Germans sinking merchantmen without warning was discarded in the prewar Navy as “impossible and unthinkable,” and Churchill did not believe this would ever be done by a civilized power. He erred in the best of company.
Fisher also believed in amphibious warfare, and pointed the way to combined operations. But offensive strategy was then reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. The author says: “Alice summed up the interservice wrangle on the subject of combined operations when she said to the Cheshire Cat, ‘They all quarrel so dreadfully, and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular, and you’ve no idea how confusing it all is.’”
Outstanding men, who so vividly color this faithful and comprehensive account of British naval policy and strategy in the fascinating decade immediately preceding World War I, include Fisher and his disciples before the war, Winston Churchill and Prince Louis of Battenberg (afterwards Admiral of the Fleet The Marquess of Milford Haven, father of the present Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma). Others were the young and dashing Beatty (a captain at 29 and a rear admiral at 38) and the brilliant and experienced Jellicoe, both of whom had been so carefully groomed for stardom during the war.
Island of the Lost
By Paul Fenimore Cooper. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1961. Maps. Selected Bibliography. 256 pages. $4.00.
My Polar Flights. An Account of the Voyages of the Airships Italia and Norge
By Umberto Nobile. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1961. Illustrated. Appendix. Index. 288 pages. $4.50.
The Case for Doctor Cook
By Andrew A. Freeman. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1961. 315 pages. Index of sources, notes, and acknowledgments. $5.75.
REVIEWED BY
Rear Admiral George Dufek, U. S. Navy (Retired)
(Rear Admiral Dufek was Commander, U. S. Naval Support Force Antarctica during the International Geophysical Tear. He has been to the Arctic three times, and six times to the Antarctic. He is the author of Operation Deepfreeze and Through the Frozen Frontier. He is now Director of The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia.)
North of Canada’s shore and in the middle of the sprawling Arctic Archipelago lies King William Island—known to the Eskimos as Kikertak. Across this island, as though on a stage, the author of Island of the Lost parades his characters. First there were the legendary giants of a thousand years ago—the Tunrit. These strange people, strong and hardy, but easy going and slow-witted, were driven off by the Eskimos. Then followed the explorers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Paul Fenimore Cooper, dreamed of being an explorer after reading of the exploits of Nansen, Peary, and Amundsen. A great- grandson of the famous American novelist, he was educated at Taft School, Yale, and Trinity College. After graduation he made a number of flights to the Polar Sea. He decided to write a book about King William Island and put into it the story of the North that always fascinated him.
In the first half of the 19th century, expeditions led by aggressive explorers such as James Clark Ross, George Buck, and Thomas Simpson converged upon the Island from three directions—east, west, and south. Their
goal was the Northwest Passage. Although not successful in finding a waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, their reports, sketches, and logs furnished information for the first maps of the area.
The remainder of the narrative is largely devoted to the 1846 expedition of Sir John Franklin in the two ships Erebus and Terror. After plunging south into the ice between Prince of Wales Island and Boothia Peninsula, the ships became beset off King William Island. No white man ever saw them again. They remained frozen in for three long years of suffering and misery. In the spring of the fourth year, it was apparent to all that they must set out on sledges for Fort Resolution, a distance of 1,250 miles to the south, or remain in the ships and die of starvation or scurvy.
The resultant march for survival, which resulted in death for all, was perhaps one of the most miserable ever attempted by man. I1 was recorded by tales of the Eskimos and recovered relics which were gathered by one of the greatest search missions in polar history by Englishmen and Americans over a quarter century.
Island of the Lost is a story of adventure and exploration that brought some success and rewards. The failures resulted in starvation, scurvy, cannibalism, murder, and suicide.
On the brighter side, the Island is p°r" trayed as gloriously alive during its short summer. Warm weather brings the tiny flowers to bloom. Birds build their nests and lay their eggs. Trout and salmon run UP rivers and streams. White whales and narwhals cruise along the coast. The animals caribou, fox, bear, rabbits, and musk-oxen roam the tundra. It is a hunter’s paradise f01 a few brief weeks.
Today the Eskimos use modern equipment for the hunt—rifles, nets, and traps. They trade fox skins at the Hudson’s Bay Post f°r the white man’s goods. The children of the
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Eskimos go to school to learn the three tv and are taught to cherish their own culture in order to meet a changing world.
King William Island—Kikertak to the Eskimos—will always be remembered in Arctic history as the graveyard of the Frankhn expedition.
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Few, if any, Polar Expeditions are free °
bickering and recriminations and Nobile’s Polar Flights were no exception.
The author of My Polar Flights, General Umberto Nobile, commanded the small airships Norge and Italia during their flights across the Arctic Ocean.
The first journey (May 1926) labeled the “Amundsen - Ellsworth - Nobile Transpolar Flight,” successfully crossed the Northern Polar Sea for the first time. This expedition Was initiated by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who was first to reach the South Pole in 1911. Financial backing was furnished by the American Explorer, Lincoln Ellsworth. The Italian, General Umberto Nobile, commanded the airship Norge.
The author describes the preparations for the expedition and the flight of Norge from Italy to its jumping-off place, Spitzbergen. He recounts his meeting at Kings Bay with Byrd and Bennett, who were poised in their Fokker Aircraft for the flight to the North Pole. During the preparations for take-off of Norge, Byrd made his 15|-hour round trip flight to the Pole.
Admiral Robert E. Peary, a Civil Engineer in the U. S. Navy, reached the
North Pole on 6 April 1909. Dr. Frederick A. Cook’s claim that he had reached the
Pole a year earlier started a controversy that has lasted over 50 years.
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The flight of Norge across the Arctic Ocean
to Alaska was close to disaster due to icing, material casualties, and variations in altitude. The track from the Pole to Alaska proved the absence of land.
A successful forced landing at Teller, 100 miles from Nome, completed the first trip by man across the North Pole and the Arctic Ocean.
Each member of the expedition returned safely to his native land to receive a hero’s welcome. The accomplishment, however, was marred by the bickering between Amundsen and Nobile.
En route from the United States to Italy, Nobile planned a second expedition of systematic exploration of the Arctic Ocean.
Two years later, with the backing of Mussolini, Nobile was over the North Pole in the airship Italia. On the return trip to Spitz- bergen, the ship was engulfed in a hurricane and crashed on the sea ice. The main part of Italia with Nobile and eight men sprawled over the ice. The remaining part of the airship with six men was blown away into the darkness of the storm.
The suffering of the survivors, the frustrating attempts of the rescue, and the aftermath of recriminations are vividly portrayed by the author.
During the rescue, the Swedish Pilot Lund- borg insisted that the badly injured Nobile be evacuated first. Nobile protested, but Lund- borg was firm in stating that he had orders to bring back Nobile first so that he could direct the search for the three divided parties of Italia's crew.
Upon his return to Italy, Nobile’s political enemies made much of the point that he had been the first to be rescued.
It was just as logical for General Nobile to be evacuated first in order to direct the subsequent search and rescue as it was for General
MacArthur to leave Corregidor.
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The Case for Doctor Cook is a revival of the controversy that exploded upon a credulous world 52 years ago. It concerned two men who claimed to be the first to reach the North Pole.
On 2 September 1909, page one of the New York Herald electrified the world with the scoop that a Brooklyn physician, Dr. Frederick A. Cook, had reached the North Pole
on 21 April 1908. Amazing, it was!
Another startling piece of news came out of the North, five days after the Herald's scoop, that Robert E. Peary, a Civil Engineer in the U. S. Navy, had reached the North Pole on 6 April 1909, one year after Dr. Cook.
The delay of Cook’s claim was due to his spending an extra season in the Arctic and returning to civilization through Greenland and thence by the ship, Hans Egede, to Denmark. When he told his story to those whom he encountered in the Arctic, he asked his listeners to promise they would tell no one that he had attained the Pole. Hans Egede stopped at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands en route to Copenhagen. From here the cablegrams announcing his attainment of the North Pole were sent out to the world.
This book by Andrew A. Freeman is the first formal biography of the explorer, Cook. The author’s interest in the case began in 1932 when Cook made an unexpected visit to his home. This was two years after the explorer had been released from Leavenworth Penitentiary: Thus author and explorer were brought together for the first time.
Freeman states that he was not at first in1' pressed with Cook whom he described as ‘10 his sixties, slightly stooped, and dressed some' what shabbily.” Although the author considered the explorer a charlatan, he was im* pressed by his mild manner, steady insistence he had attained the North Pole, and calm reference to his rival, Peary, without bitter' ness.
Further investigation sharpened the author’s interest in this drama of the far North' During the following years of research, he compiled and indexed all the information available concerning the lives of Dr. Coo and Admiral Peary, and their claims to the North Pole. This information was gleane from magazine and newspaper articles, PeI sonal letters and interviews, admissions 0 ghost writers, Congressional investigations, biographies and autobiographies, other rec^ ords and writings, and the mouthings publicity seekers.
This information was used to present Dr- Cook’s claim to the North Pole in such a man ner that the reading public would “wonde why history has portrayed Peary as the her0 and cast Cook in the role of villain.”
As a lawyer, the author presents “The Case for Doctor Cook,” in a commendable manner. If I were in trouble, I certainly would like to have Mr. Andrew A. Freeman on my side.
To the jury—the reading public—the author portrays the bright side of the shield of Cook’s life. Cook had made four expeditions to the Arctic and one to the Antarctic before his try for the North Pole. He was an excellent physician. Amundsen praised him for his work aboard Belgica in the Antarctic. King Leopold conferred upon Cook the Order of Leopold. Other praise had been heaped upon the explorer. There was much that was left unsaid.
To the jury, the author outlines the dark side of Peary’s life. He dwells on the bickering and jealousies on Peary’s expeditions. He emphasizes the sharp bartering with the natives. He points out mistakes in the charts of Greenland that Peary made. He invites attention to the superior backing of Peary by wealthy men, politicians, and powerful organizations. There was much unsaid of the many fine things Admiral Peary accomplished in his many years of polar exploration.
The author makes a valiant attempt to clear the record of his client, but has a Herculean task of explaining away the four charges against him, namely:
(1) That he falsely represented himself as the author of Bridges’ Tahgan Grammar and Dictionary. This was the grammar and dictionary of the Yahgans of Tierra del Fuego compiled by the Reverend Thomas Bridges.
(2) That he falsely claimed to have climbed Mount McKinley.
(3) That he falsely claimed to have reached the North Pole.
(4) That he used the mails to defraud by exaggerating the prospects of the Petroleum Producers Association to promote the sale of stock.
Of the first three charges, innocent or guilty, there was no official penalty of a fine or prison term. There was plenty of heartbreak. For the last charge, of using the mails to defraud, Cook was found guilty. The sentence was 14 years and nine months in Leavenworth Penitentiary and a fine of Si 2,000.00. In passing sentence, Judge John M. Killits, of Toledo, Ohio, said: “First we had Ananias, then we had Machiavelli; the twentieth century produced Frederick A. Cook. Poor Ananias, he is forgotten, and Machiavelli—we have Frederick A. Cook.”
Perhaps it would be best if the whole North Pole controversy were forgotten.
Deadline Data on World Affairs
Deadline Data on World Affairs, 1078
Madison Avenue, New York-28, N. Y.
REVIEWED BY
Rear Admiral A. F. Schade, U. S. Navy
(Rear Admiral Schade is Director, Politico-Military
Policy Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.)
Any perspicacious naval officer involved in national military policy, international security relationships or certain intelligence functions, owes it to himself to investigate the utility of a handy reference system and service which calls itself Deadline Data on World Affairs. In fact, any staff officer whose duties frequently require quick and accurate answers to a wide variety of questions on world affairs should acquaint himself with this system, if for no other reason than to protect himself from possible embarrassment and the sometimes harsh consequence of giving an incorrect answer to a superior “off the top of his head.”
Basically, Deadline Data is a reference service published by Deadline Data, Inc., of New York, which provides each new subscriber with a six-drawer steel cabinet containing about 7,500 5X8 cards. The compact cabinet is 21 inches high, 18| inches wide and 20 inches deep. Cards are arranged alphabetically by country, and within each country, cards are organized chronologically. A small number of subject headings other than by country, such as “International Waterways” and “Oil” are included. Each subscriber receives a weekly supplement of about 50 cards which updates the reference material, and the entire file is under constant revision by the publisher to weed out those data which are no longer considered significant. The cost to a new subscriber of the six- drawer cabinet, reference cards, and weekly supplement service for one year is $250.00, with 20 per cent off to schools, public libraries, and non-profit institutions. The system is available at many U. S. military
installations throughout the world. It is easy to maintain and very simple to use.
Within a matter of seconds, Deadline Data can provide information on the domestic and foreign affairs of every country in the world, every crisis and every major world affairs issue, and careful documentation and objective reporting on many special topics including international organizations, conferences, treaties, and inter-American affairs. Comments are identified as to source and date, and all data are cross-referenced. The system advertises that it “finds facts fast,” and answers to such bizarre questions as the strategic importance of the Aaland Islands or the growth of Communism in Zanzibar are literally at the searcher’s fingertips.
The principal value of Deadline Data to the officer working in a “quiz-bowl” type billet lies in its time-saving features and the scope of its coverage. When time is of the essence and the need for accuracy absolute, the reference system assumes as almost indispensable quality.
Obviously, no single system has yet been devised which will satisfy everyone’s reference requirements. Because of its accumulative and expanding features, a certain amount of “cutting back” is inherent in the Deadline Data system. As a result the information provided is necessarily concise. The size of the cabinet, of course, limits the number of cards it can hold, and as new material is fed into the file other data must eventually be discarded. An officer desiring to research an item on world affairs in detail would probably have to turn to additional sources to complete his task, but it is very likely that Deadline Data could provide him with some valuable and time-saving leads.
The Conduct of War 1789-1961
By Major General J. F. C. Fuller. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1961.
Appendices. Index. 352 pages. $6.00.
REVIEWED BY
Lieutenant General E. W. Snedeker, U. S.
Marine Corps
(Lieutenant General Snedeker is Commandant, Marine
Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia.)
Major General Fuller again has written a book of considerable importance to our times.
His thoughts relative to war being a means to a political end, and of war consisting of several elements—psychological, economic, and physical violence, all of which should be considered in proper perspective in the prosecution of both war and peace—are clearly expressed and well documented.
Dealing briefly with the period from the Thirty Years’ War to the French Revolution, the author relates how the devastation of men and country during the religious wars preceding this era gave rise to a feeling of repulsion which resulted in more humane forms of limited war in Italy. These wars were fought by mercenaries who preferred an economic, rather than a military, solution to conflicts of that day, with resultant increased longevity on their part.
With the French Revolution, however, and the ensuing French Wars against Austria, Prussia, England, Russia, and others, conscription provided a means for France to raise forces adequate to carry out Napoleon s plans for conquest. With conscription it was possible to raise large armies, to indoctrinate the soldiers in hate, to use the total resources of the country for war, and to wage wars of complete (unlimited) devastation of enemy peoples and their economy. This conduct of war gave the Emperor many victories, but made the struggle between France and England an unlimited one for supremacy. Weakened by the disastrous Russian campaign and the British blockade, Napoleon was ultimately defeated. Also contributing to this defeat was his failure to organize an effective staff to relieve him of some of the complexity of controlling large armed forces.
General Fuller finds that Clausewitz absorbed the lesson of the Napoleonic Wars that war and policy are inseparably related—' that war is an instrument of policy, and that the grand strategy of prosecuting a conflict should be derived from the policy objectives of a nation. While Clausewitz was an advocate of “absolute war,” Fuller contends that the true aim of war is peace and not victory- With this we can agree, provided it is a just peace.
Fuller carefully develops the fact that the tremendous requirements for weapons, transport, and other accouterments needed by mass armies and large navies would have
been impossible to fill had it not been for the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. The ill treatment of factory Workers, together with mass unemployment, gave rise to many social reformers. The most notable of these was Karl Marx, who, with Engels, produced the Communist Manifesto ' the declaration of war to death between the proletariat and capitalism. This work has again and again been affirmed as the Com- hiunist bible providing political, economic, psychological, and military guidance for Communists of the world.
Turning to the Civil War, the author shows how the rifle bullet, breech-loading artillery, lhe steam engine, machine guns, ironclad ships, and similar inventions made the frontal Assault a disastrous tactic and led to a war of Unusual maneuver, and of both offensive and defensive tactics.
General Fuller relates how Field Marshal von Moltke, through study of Napoleon and Clausewitz, concluded that “statecraft and generalship are closely related,” that “movement is the soul of war,” and that the complexity of large armies required decentralization of command. This led to the co-ordination of policy with war planning and execution, and the development of the Prussian general staff. The Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars had limited objectives and were quickly won by Prussian tactics of maneuver and fire superiority. A pacifist of the times, I. S. Bloch, concluded that the new weapons were leading to such slaughter and that battles were becoming so costly that wars of the future would likely be directed along economic lines leading to national bankruptcy and the disruption of the social organization. One senses that General Fuller feels that this kind of war is presently going on.
The author shows how the quest for raw materials and markets resulted in the buildup of colonial empires, world power, and world conflict. New weapons, steam and gas engines, ironclad ships, added firepower and mobility to armed forces. The Spanish-Amer- ican War, the Anglo-Boer War, and the
munism and the one in the west ag3*
Russo-Japanese War provided testing grounds. Various alliances were formed, tension mounted, and the stage was set for World War I.
Then he observes that World War I was a very complex war—both as to nations participating and national objectives. France wanted to cripple Germany; Russia to absorb the Balkan states and gain an outlet to the Mediterranean. Germany wanted to prevent both of these objectives and to become the dominant European power. Great Britain wished to vanquish Germany as a serious trade rival. The lack of a common Allied policy or objective led to divergent war effort and in the end to an ineffective peace through unrealistic objectives. The stalemate which eventuated on land did not exist at sea and the effectiveness of the Allied blockade led to the economic strangulation of the Central Powers.
The slaughter of World War I and the economic and spiritual deterioration of European nations promoted revolution in Russia and troop mutinies in France, Germany, and Italy. There was great unrest among the people, and Lenin carried on the work of Marx with the Communist Manifesto as the bible. The combination of these circumstances stimulated the growth of Communist parties in other European nations, and to varying degrees in other countries of the world.
The conduct of Soviet Revolutionary Warfare is covered in some detail. General Fuller
classes Communism as “a religion, and none the less potent for being a secular one.” He believes that the Russian policy of expediency can be readily understood in this light and that it is not strange that the Soviets exploit any weakness found in non-Communist countries—political, psychological, economic or internal strife. Disarmament becomes to them only a means to increase arms and sow discord among non-aligned nations.
The terms of the Armistice forced upon Germany departed far from Wilson’s “Terms of Peace,” resulting in the further impoverishment of Germany. This aided the rise of Hitler to power, with his Mein Kampj bible and the establishment of the supremacy of the German race as a policy. Hitler’s evasion of the Versailles Treaty, his absorption of Austria, the Sudetenland, Memel, and Czechoslovakia, the great economic growth of Germany, and the tactical proficiency and strength of the Third Reich armed forces all combined to give him the power he considered necessary to conquer the rest of Western Europe. A strange Non-Aggression Pact was arranged with the U.S.S.R. Great Britain and France gave assurances that they would support Poland, Rumania ano Greece in event of aggression against them- The democracies thus chose Nazi tyranny as a greater immediate threat than Com munism. ..
World War II was a struggle between di' ferent ideologies. The physical war was chat' acterized initially by the sudden air-armorc panzer thrust, the encircling and pincer move ments—the blitzkrieg—in which penetratin'1 deep into enemy territory was used to p3‘ alyze his command, control and logistics, tactic long advocated by Captain Lidc L ^ Hart, the perspicacious British military al1^ thor, and also by Fuller. Hitler’s initial s"c^ cess in driving to the channel ports came t° halt when he was confronted by British se^ power. He was not prepared to invade En£ land and instead turned to conquer Rmsl before the United States might enter the w3^
The further history of this war, and r Japan’s entrance in it, is well known. Fu notes that unfortunately the Western P0"^ failed to realize there were really two wars' progress—the war in the east against
Hitlerism. Once again an unrealistic unconditional surrender was imposed on Germany. Russia was permitted to extend her influence deep into Central Europe and the Balkans. The several meetings between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin are expertly covered. Then General Fuller gives his views regarding strategic bombing, the war in the Pacific, and the unnecessary use of atomic bombs on Japan. He concludes that while the Allied Powers gained military victory the political victory was lost through the harsh terms imposed on Germany and the concessions made to the Soviets.
The last chapter is devoted to the “Problems of Peace” and is most interesting. The author reviews his thoughts regarding “the emergence of a new form of civilization” brought about by the economic changes growing out of the industrial revolution and the radical changes brought about by fantastic weapons, but not fully understood, in the techniques of war and in world politics.
He concludes that industrial power, not the soldier, has become the decisive element in war and policy; that nuclear weapons are so devastating that nuclear war is an absurdity. He states further “except for wars other than those which directly involve the two great nuclear camps, such as wars by proxy or police operations, it looks as if physical warfare is speeding toward the dustbin of obsolete things.” With this conclusion one can readily take exception in varying degrees.
General Fuller discusses the cold war and the difference between democracies, where “peace begins when war ends,” and the U.S.S.R., where “peace is a continuation of war by every means short of actual fighting.” He does not believe that the statesmen of the Free World fully understand this. He contends that there should be no compromise with the Soviets “as long as they continue to hold that World revolution is pre-ordained by history,” and that conferences only serve Soviet propaganda and should be avoided. Fuller believes Khrushchev recognizes that the subjugated peoples within the U.S.S.R. are its Achilles heel and that his cold war policy is to break away from the inevitability of war and to substitute “peaceful co-existence” while pressing the economic attack to destroy capitalism.
He argues that with the vast resources of manpower and materials available to theU.S.S.R., economic warfare does constitute a threat, but a threat which the Western Block, if it will join in concerted effort, can adequately challenge.
The Conduct of War, in summary, is a most interesting book and well merits the attention of the statesman, the military, industry and the worker. It is clear that there is a real challenge to democracy and General Fuller’s work will help to clarify the challenge and the issues.
The Coming Fury
By Bruce Catton; E. B. Long, Director of Research. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1961. Illustrated. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. 565 pages. $7.50.
REVIEWED BY
Colonel Earl W. Thomson, U. S. Army Reserve (Retired)
(Colonel Thomson retired, in 1959 as Senior Professor, Emeritus, after 40 years on the Naval Academy faculty. He retired in 1954 as Colonel, U. S. Army Reserve after service in World Wars 1 and II.)
Avoiding the rabid ravings of the Southern fire-eaters and the fanatical rantings of the Northern Abolitionists, Bruce Catton follows the broad, middle road in this narrative history of the genesis of the Civil War, from the unfortunate Democratic Convention in Charleston in April 1860 to the disastrous First Battle of Bull Run, 21 July 1861. To quote him: “Overstatement is the language of politics, of salesmanship and of hard bargaining” and we might add, of the memoirs and reminiscences of prejudiced extremists. When he wants to express the fanatical point of view he can always quote, “Lincoln is vain, weak, puerile, hypocritical, without manners, without moral grace, . . . surrounded by a set of toad eaters and bottle holders.” But Bruce Catton is not only an accurate, readable historian, he is an artist of descriptive beauty and the flowing phrase, “When the Southern delegates marched proudly out of the Democratic conventions they drew armies after them, and put the touch of fire on quaintly named places which no one then knew anything about—Chickamauga Creek,
Stone’s River, the tidewater barrens at Cold Harbor, and the drowsy market town of Gettysburg, to name a few.”
It would seem unnecessary to recommend this volume I of The Centennial History of the Civil War (commissioned six years ago by Doubleday and the N. Y. Times) to any readers who have enjoyed Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox, Grant Moves South, and This Hallowed Ground. Here is the leading narrative historian of the Civil War, supported by extensive research directed by E. B. Long, who has appended notes and a bibliography of 75 pages which will be the delight of every Civil War buff. The research for this volume must have been tremendous. Authorship of this type must be one of discarding the minutiae and of following the main theme.
After the unfortunate division of the Democratic party at Charleston, Mr. Catton comments, “American politicians in 1860 could do almost anything on earth except sit down and take a reasoned and dispassionate view of their situation.” He then takes us to the uproarious Republican convention at the Wigwam in Chicago, the defeat of Seward and the nomination of Abraham Lincoln, who “had avoided the pitfall that awaits the man who is too prominent.” The author evidently leans toward Douglas as the only fearless statesman among the candidates.
On 5 October 1860, Governor Gist of South Carolina had queried the governors of the other Cotton States on the possibility of secession, and after the election of Lincoln by a minority popular vote, South Carolina took the unilateral action of secession on 20 December 1860. From November to March we have the spectacle of a lame-duck President in the White House, a weak, vacillating, indecisive, baffled Buchanan. Then came the First Inauguration and the, problem of Fort Sumter. “Governor Pickens and Major Anderson, between them, had immeasurably oversimplified the complicated issue that was dividing the nation.” . . . This one fort “symbolized all the material and spiritual values that were at stake between the two governments.” . . . “The crisis came because seven states (for the most complex of reasons) had declared themselves out of the Union.” Through the months following the fall of
Sumter, “it would slowly become evident that when they committed themselves at last to secession, not as a threat but as an accomplished fact armed for violence, the devoted men who wanted to preserve the Southern way of life had made a tactical error.” The question of the border states and their reasons for joining the Confederacy (Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas) or remaining loyal to the Union (Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri) are discussed at length-
The build-up of the military forces led to the battle of Bull Run where the “untrained regiments had been used beyond their capacity and had fallen apart.” The author feels, however, that “the notion that the Confederate Army could have walked into Washington within 24 hours will hardly bear analysis, and then concludes, “Bull Run gave the North a reawakening, but it gave the South overconfidence.”
In 1860 the Navy was in a destitute condition as the Naval Appropriation Bill of 1859 had cut the estimate for repairs and re-equip' ment by a million dollars. Congressman Love- joy of Illinois had asserted, “I am tired of appropriating money for the army and the navy when absolutely they are of no use whatever. ... I want to strike a blow at this whole naval expenditure and let the navy go out of existence.” The whole U. S. Army numbered hardly more than 16,000 officers and men, scattered mostly in forts along the western frontier, and the state militias were destitute of equipment and training. From November 1860 to March 1861, there evidently was a complete lack of policy. The Army and the Navy awaited orders and never got the proper answers. Lincoln appointed Gideon Welle^ “an observant, petulant, but fair-minded former Democrat” as Secretary of the Navy- “Welles knew little more about the navy than the average politician who finds himself calleCl upon to run the Navy Department, but he would prove a capable executive.” The Navy assisted at the abortive attempts to provision Fort Sumter, and the successful relief of Fort Pickens off Pensacola. The most disgracefn episode of this year, however, was the surrender of the Gosport (Norfolk) Navy Yar by Commodore McCauley where the “navy had been dawdling away at the construction of USS New York for 20 years or more.” T was not until later that the Navy proved decisive in the encircling blockade and at the battles of New Orleans and Vicksburg.
This narrative history is so interesting and readable that we recommend that you beg, borrow, or buy a copy and relive the tensions, problems, and decisions of the genesis of the Civil War. We shall await with impatience the succeeding volumes of The Centennial His- of the Civil War.
Oceanographic Vessels of the World
Compiled by Luis R. A. Capurro, Albert M. Bargeski, and William H. Myers. A joint publication of the IGY Data Center “A” for Oceanography and the National Oceanographic Data Center. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1961. Illustrated. 325 pages. Index and Glossary. $4.50.
REVIEWED BY
Captain E. John Long, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
(iCaptain Long was recently associate editor of Sea Frontiers, quarterly magazine of the International Oceanographic Foundation. He is author of Annapolis, Doubleday & Company, and a previous contributor to the Proceedings.)
This handsome and sturdy loose-leaf volume, bound in white plastic, meets a longstanding need for a single publication which describes and illustrates every known vessel engaged in oceanographic research. It not only gives a wealth of detail about specifications and equipment, but also scientific capabilities and even the daily cost of operations of such ships. Included are data about research craft of 66 nations, including those of several Iron Curtain countries.
Because most of the information had to be obtained from original, widely-scattered sources, this is a truly remarkable job of compilation. The only comparable effort, and a much less ambitious one, was Thomas Way- land Vaughan’s International Aspects of Oceanography, published before World War II and now obsolete. In 1953, the Office of Naval Research issued a report “Oceanographic Vessels of the United States,” but this gave details and photographs of only U. S. surveying and research vessels.
The present well-illustrated volume is a joint production of the IGY World Data Center “A” for Oceanography, at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and the new National Oceanographic Data Center, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C. Actual printing was done at the U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
In a brief foreword, the compilers, Luis R. A. Capurro, of Texas A. & M., and A. M. Bargeski and William H. Myers, National Oceanographic Data Center, express regret that not all nations and oceanic ships are represented. “However,” they add, “we believe that once this publication is received by the scientific communities of the maritime nations, each will want to have pertinent ship data and photographs of its oceanographic vessels included. For this reason, this publication was placed in a looseleaf binder.”
Recent world-wide enthusiasm for greater knowledge of the oceans has created a lively demand for reference materials such as this, which should find a ready place in every well-stocked library relating to the sea. Oceanographic Vessels of the World not only provides an indicator of world capability to carry on observational marine programs, but it will also be of great value to those planning international co-operative expeditions, which now are becoming more frequent. The International Indian Ocean Expedition, in process of organization, is a case in point.
While the book’s offset illustrations leave much to be desired, they were no doubt the only ones obtainable at the time and may be improved in subsequent editions or looseleaf inserts. A particularly valuable feature of the book is a glossary of oceanographic terms, briefly describing such oddities as: asdic, Chernikeef log, gyro-repeater, D-instrument, hot bulb engine, pitometer log, trawl gallows, wildcat, etc. There is also a list of nautical abbreviations and symbols, and their meanings.
While this useful volume may not hit the best-seller lists, it should enjoy a brisk sale among government agencies, research institutions, and marine contractors throughout the world. The current rapid development of oceanic research, with the dropping of obsolete vessels and the adding of new equipment, will warrant frequent issuance of insert sheets and possibly annual supplements.
Professional Reading
By Robert M. Langdon
• Two significant sea power articles off the beaten path: a noteworthy account by Fleet Admiral Nimitz appeared in Petroleum Today for Spring, 1961. “The Navy’s Secret Weapon’ lS the story of USS Maumee's successful refueling of Commander J. K. Taussig’s (“We are ready now!”) World War I destroyers as they pushed across the Atlantic to Queenstown in May 1917. Admiral Nimitz calls that event a significant forerunner of the World War II refueling' at-sea techniques that enabled the U. S. Navy to cut loose from its fixed bases in the Pacific and thereby carry the war far into the enemy’s area. . . . From the Institute of Radio Engineers' Trans- actions on Military Electronics January, 1961 issue comes “The Breakthrough of the Scharnhorst^' Some Radio Technical Details” by Captain Helmuth Giessler, German Navy (Retired), wh° served as that battleship’s navigator during the Channel Dash of February, 1941.
• Few Pacific Ocean crossers may have noted the sub-surface phenomenon known t° oceanographers as the “East Pacific Rise.” What it is and what causes it are explained by Scripps oceanographer H. W. Menard in Scientific American for December 1961. Menards theory deals with convectional currents beneath the earth’s crust, which happens to be, in that area, the floor of the Pacific.
• Noteworthy abridgment: When the late Douglas Southall Freeman’s 4-volume Robert E- Lee (Scribners, 1933) emerged nearly three decades ago, critics asserted that the biography would stand forever as the biography of Lee. To date that estimate has proved valid, although reading four volumes may have presented a major obstacle to some students of American his[1] tory. Now R. B. Harwell’s abridgment, Lee (Scribners, $10.00) presents in one volume the most vital aspects of the original four-volume work.
• Goa-Katmandu-Katanga-Swaziland? Keeping abreast of current geo-political de' velopments is often frustrating for the would-be well-informed person. Three of the best aids in this task are: Atlas of World Affairs, 4th Edition (Praeger, $1.65—paper; $3.50—cloth) by Andrew Boyd; this is more than an atlas for it contains appropriate textual comment; Me~ ridian’s Compact Atlas of the World (World, $1.95) carries 128 full-color maps plus current statistics; most readily available, however, is the World Almanac ($1.45) fullest, latest, and least expensive. ... In the same field is a new series of paperbacks presenting political geography in action: Searchlight Books (Van Nostrand, $1.45 each). Four titles merit attention: Divide Germany and Berlin by Pounds; The Russo-Chinese Borderlands by Jackson; Spain in the WoA11 by Bradford; and Pacific Island Bastions of the United States by Wiens. All are guaranteed to strengthen our geo-political acumen.
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