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^•gustine’s Laws and Major ^steni Development Programs
lnstlt'an Augustine. New York: American
*nc * Aeronautics and Astronautics,
•’ *"82. 214 pp. Ulus. Graphs. $14.95.
D,y?'v5<* I*.' Lieutenant Commander ph E. Chatham, U. S. Navy
Ce ^*ecutives who do not produce suc- [o th • resu'ts can expected to hold on °th ei^0^s on>y about five years. On the tiveer lantT those who do produce effec- half results can expect to hang on about 1 a decade.”
Augustine, President of Mar- Clef ar’etta Denver, Chairman of the SecetlSe Science Board, former Under ex-ary °f the Army, has written an cal me^ humorous yet depressing criti- pr0exam*nation of major development fjs ®rams- The text sparkles with apho- “QnS and ‘fnotes, e.g., Massey’s Law: and 6, Vlce'Pres*(Cent, two vice admirals, d^c | e GS-18’s wired in series pro- rees.t,s,c] near infinite impedance.” It is ton SCent °1 Parkinson’s Law (Hough- tog '^'n> 1962), each chapter contain- and 3 ^‘scuss*on> an illustrative graph, a summarizing law.
'vithU^USt'ne ‘'es ‘^e ^ chapters together rise mtroduct°ry paragraphs relating the proand Call of a fictitious acquisition to W ^cal data documents the Alice lask °n^er^and logic of his subject: “Any tooreCan con'PlelC(C *n only one third ^ time than is currently estimated.” rt1iSrnSUst'ne discusses Congress, opti- toana' acronyms’ mismanagement, over- sPec|er(lent’ undertesting, and over- pro1 1Cation: e.g., “The thickness of the d0]j °Sal required to win a multimillion perar. c°ntract is about one millimeter 'ng to °n- ^ ad !he proposals conform- of ° Chis standard were piled one on top Cann°tller at the bottom of the Grand idea^’011’ would probably be a good ‘So a*so 9uotes a child’s essay: ar()uC'atcs was a Philosopher. He went thin ^ P°'nting out errors in the way lockg?,VVere done. They fed him hem- tion *n ‘his year of budget confronta- ’ 0l*e wonders how Augustine es-
1*1* capes the hemlock kindly provided to other critics.
Part of his success comes from viewing his own figures with skepticism, noting with Sir Josiah Stamp that “[the data] are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!” But his real triumph is in finding a way to gild the philosophic pill. He used to write the material straight, but no one listened. Here he uses humor, sometimes quite subtly (“Detailed analyses by the author show that although the initial digit in program cost estimates is virtually never correct, the last digit does prove to be correct ten percent of the time”) and reductio ad absurdum (“In the year 2054 the entire defense budget will purchase just one tactical aircraft”). We find that we can laugh at the extrapolation and yet accept the message.
The book needs an editor, e.g., the Law of Enduring Pestilence: “The. average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee and one-tenth as long as a human, but four times as long as the official who created it.” How long is a chimpanzee?
Augustine's Laws provides us with a rare vision; an expert has found a way to explain the truth without drinking hemlock. It has wider applicability than the title suggests: “The author has merely elected to depart from the tradition of most Washington writers and address matters with which he has some familiarity.” It is funny, sobering, and illuminating. It makes excellent out-loud reading. The greatest disappointment is the lack of an implementation plan, but he makes a good case for there being no solutions to implement. Perhaps only people can save us from ourselves. They, and we, would profit from this book. The book is well worth the price; particularly for those of us who worry about that old saw of our ships being built by the lowest bidder. If that were only all.
Lieutenant Commander Chatham is an experimental physicist and submariner who has spent the last two years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense watching programs rise and fall.
The Battle for the Falklands
Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins. London: Michael Joseph, 1983. 384 pp. lllus. Maps. Gloss. Append. Ind. £ 10.95 (Approx. $17.55).
Reviewed by Captain John O. Coote, Royal Navy (Retired)
Dozens of instant paperback histories of the Falklands Campaign were rushed out within weeks of General Mario Menendez’s signature on the Instrument of Surrender in Government House, Port Stanley, on 14 June 1982. But this book is the first to recollect the action in tranquility, showing evident signs of objective research leading to credible judgments on the events and personalities involved.
Simon Jenkins, formerly editor of the London Evening Standard, is now political editor of the prestigious opinion weekly The Economist. His old Fleet Street colleague Max Hastings started with an advantage denied most of the other 28 correspondents who found their way to the Falklands: as a seasoned war correspondent of international repute he knew the ropes. Everyone wondered at his resourcefulness in always being abreast of the action, apparently with his private hot-line for sending copy back to London. Other journalists remained bitterly frustrated and out of touch. Many left England without the remotest idea how few facilities would be made available to them.
The opening scene-setting chapters take a calm look at the competing Argentinian and British claims for sovereignty over the inhospitable group of rocks. It was not quite the open-and-shut case which either country believed until 2 April 1982. The British can point to 150 years of continuous administration, backed by what has since become a cliche—the paramount will of the inhabitants. Ironically, it was these kelpers, their homeland and way of life now irredeemably shattered, who thwarted all the British Foreign Office’s years of low-key diplomacy to remove them from the inventory of Britain’s post-colonial respon-
problems he faced on his staff. Mars
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sibilities. The strategic importance of the islands in the context of the denial of the Panama Canal to the U. S. Navy is not taken into account in this book. Simon Jenkins sees the Haig shuttle diplomacy as an exercise in emulating Henry Kissinger. It was met with equal obduracy in London and Buenos Aires and was not exactly in line with the policies being pursued at the United Nations by Mrs. Kirkpatrick.
The only diplomats who emerge with any credit are the British ambassador in Washington, Sir Nicholas Henderson, who marshalled U. S. public opinion to Britain’s side while President Reagan was pursuing his “even-handed” policy, and Sir Nicholas Parsons at the United Nations who finessed Resolution 502 against all the odds and potential vetoes; the resolution flatly ordered Galtieri to withdraw his troops.
Max Hastings not only sailed with the British task force, but went all the way with the commando brigade, from their audacious landing in San Carlos Bay 50 miles over the bare mountains to Port Stanley. The paratroopers he was with were ordered to wait on the outskirts of the town, pending formal surrender arrangements. So he walked on alone into downtown Port Stanley and was the first member of the British force to get there. For his coverage of the war he was voted “Reporter of the Year for 1982.”
The regimental motto of the Special Air Service (SAS) regiment is “Who Dares, Wins.” It might have applied to every unit taking part in the operation. The catalog of what might have gone wrong is hair-raising. Indeed, but for knowing how it was all going to end, the reader would have been kept guessing till the last chapter.
How near was Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward’s task force to the end of its tether, to say nothing of ammunition, spares, and the borrowed time of wear and tear on men and ships? What if the U. S. manufacturers had not failed to supply the operating manuals with the bombs they delivered to the Argentinian air forces, so that they could have been correctly fused for low-level attack? What if the cruiser General Belgrano had not been sunk early in the proceedings? Or, what if the Argentinians had not held back two of their crack mountain commando battalions to guard against a stab in the back by Chile?
Above all, what if the resolution of those frustrated onlookers in Downing Street had wavered beyond control? It nearly did, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher never dropped her guard or lost her sublime confidence in the admirals and the hard men they despatched to fight at the end of an 8,000-mile improvised logistics chain, without airborne early warning, adequate point-defense systems, or all-weather combat air support. They faced odds which any staff college would have declared unwise—or worse.
The authors have put their complementary talents and experience to rare effect in this important book. They modestly describe it as “an interim report.” But until the official history appears in 1985 —and there is still doubt whether it will ever be written—this work is not only the most authoritative, but it also uncompromisingly spells out the lessons learned, without fear or favor to those whose reputations and past judgments come under scrutiny.
Captain Coote was a Royal Navy submariner who saw war service off Norway and in the Mediterranean and later held four sea commands, 1948-54. At age 38, he resigned to go into newspaper publishing at Fleet Street, ending as Deputy Chairman of Beaver- brook Newspapers. His article on the Falklands, “Send Her Victorious ...” was published in the January 1983 Proceedings.
Marshall: Hero for Our Times
Leonard Mosley. New York: Hearst Books, 1982. 570 pp. $18.00 ($16.20).
Reviewed by Captain Patrick A. Putignano, U. S. Army
In view of Dr. Forrest C. Pogue’s three-volume biography of George Marshall (Viking Press), what more could be said, even of this eminent soldier and statesman? Leonard Mosley, a distinguished biographer, has answered that question in his book with correspondence and personal reminiscences from Marshall’s associates which add depth to his well-known accomplishments.
Marshall’s performance as the Army Chief of Staff during World War II and as President Harry S Truman’s Secretary of State rightly earn him such titles as “Organizer of Victory” or “Hero for Our Times.” Beyond that, however, Mosley depicts another gem in Marshall’s crown—moral courage. As some military critics are again leveling charges that self-interest has supplanted duty in motivating career officers, Mosley’s book is particularly timely.
Marshall’s life is a case study in selfless devotion to duty which should serve as a touchstone for public service. In his early days in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, and as a lieutenant, Marshall showed gritty determination far beyond that which most young men would be willing to endure. Even when a hazing incident resulted in grave personal injury, he refused to implicate his cadet antag0 nists. His initial duty as a lieutenant arduous; he was required to map square miles of Texas. For three month'' he led his patrol with only meager sup port. Marshall performed with quiet Pr0 fessionalism, although his service vv'aS further complicated by his wife’s P°°r health which caused her death in 192 • The most impressive accounts deplC Marshall setting things right, while ris ing his career in the process. Dur|n» World War I, he was serving as actuv Chief of Staff of the 1st Division whe General John Joseph Pershing visits ■ Neither of Marshall’s superiors cou adequately explain the tactical dem°n stration which Marshall had arrange^ Pershing became angry and started depart when Marshall grabbed his arm- Marshall gave a satisfactory explanat1 after which Pershing referred to the man)
have
them every day, and they have to solved before night.” Those who served this encounter were sure that N>a shall had done his career irreparab harm; this was not the case. .
After World War I, Lieutenant Colon6 Marshall was assigned to Fort Screve^ near Savannah, Georgia. He continued serve with distinction despite the mon° “Duty, Honor, Country.” MacArthut mouthed the words, Marshall person1' fied them.
y of camp life and the challenge of ministering Civilian Conservation rPs Programs. His nemesis, General °uglas MacArthur, was Army Chief of yj3 ’ ar|d he actively blocked Colonel era|fS\ S Promot'on to brigadier gen- disi ^acArthiir had developed a strong Serv a f0r Marsha11 because the latter had bo 6’’ aS 0ne °' Pershing’s “Chaumont Anh ^ur*n8 World War I, and Mac- SDi T ^bewd that Pershing had con- in a a®a'nst bim. Marshall succeeded Wo m'n'stering an effective public f0rr.s eff°rt in spite of these obstacles, closer ties with the local °mmunity.
MacArthur’a departure for the Philip- mofS C'earet* 'be way for Marshall’s pro- qu °n to brigadier general and subse- Inf nt ass'8nments to the 5th Brigade, 3rd Division in Washington State Warn, Washington, D.C., as Chief of Staff.
will summon great men and
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aff^anS division and Deputy Chief of p, ’ U. S. Army. As an uninitiated l^.yer °n the Washington political scene, Pror 3" *earnec* quickly. However, his ChaC lvity t0 speak his mind in this highly ard^6^ P°btical atmosphere again jeop- ized his career. At a 1938 cabinet VeptlnS with President Franklin Roose- deanc* his military advisers, the Presi- Pla So*'c'te<f Marshall’s support for a p n to ship 10,000 planes to Britain and pi nce- Marshall’s position was that the CQnes should be built for the Army Air rPs and the men recruited to fly and lYj 'nta‘n them. When the President asked shall he agreed with his plan, Mar- he resPonded, “I am sorry Mr. Presi- ^ ’ but I don’t agree with you at all.” ■preer 'hut meeting, Secretary of the sp asuD Henry Morganthau said to Mar- 0 ’ It was nice knowing you.” But
ugain Marshall pulled through, tion °S*e^ tlescribes Marshall’s participate in'0 'h°se events which shaped the invU as we now know it: planning the tionSl0n °f Europe and conducting rela- So|s w'th our allies; attempting to rep e China’s Civil War; developing a con|War 'nternational order. Marshall’s hist ri^U.h°ns were heroic. Only rarely in gr D's there the confluence of such a °le sman ant' °' events which required ana Mosley makes this point forcefully effectively.
"e book is a timely one. Future events «,;n JL,
era] ^ t0 come forward. This poses sev- re questions: who will be prepared to the^°nC*’ arK* wha' wiH be the quality of scr'r resPonse? General Marshall’s de- den^'011 of his relationship with Presi- l Roosevelt is instructive: “I never the w’'^ '"e Efes'^eu'- I swallowed "He things so that I could go to bat on the big ones.” Marshall was unerring in distinguishing between “big” and “little.” Once he decided that an issue was big, he spoke out even if this meant placing his career at risk. It is important to foster this moral courage in our officer corps.
It is even more difficult to teach young officers to differentiate between “big” and “little.” We function in a highly bureaucratized setting which sometimes confuses big and little issues and which sometimes impedes moral courage. We might overlook the professional standards which Marshall exemplified: duty,
honor, country. Our future success depends on our ability to promote these professional values now. A careful reading of Mosley’s book will help military officers and public servants think about these crucial issues.
Captain Putignano is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York.
Some Lessons and Non-Lessons of Vietnam, Ten Years after the Paris Peace Accords: A Conference Report
Robert A. Pollard, Editor. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1983. 78 pp. Maps. Charts. Append. Bib. Limited copies available at no charge from Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institute Building, Washington, DC 20560.
Reviewed by Lieutenant Michael N. Pocalyko, U. S. Navy
On 7-8 January 1983, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ International Security Studies Program sponsored a conference on this history of the Vietnam War to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords. It was entitled “The United States Experience in Vietnam.” Some Lessons and Non-Lessons of Vietnam, the record of its proceedings, is a valuable and worthwhile contribution to the efforts to arrive at a consensus about Vietnam.
Political divergence within a book like this is to be expected, and much of it is illuminating. There is a very reasoned, even gentlemanly feeling about the exchanges, even when dealing with the most controversial subjects.
The primary interaction at the Wilson Center Conference was not between liberal and conservative, revisionist and constructionist, or diplomatic proponents and military champions. It was, in the view of a primary participant, Infantry Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., of the Army War College’s Strategic Studies
Institute, between historians and strategists. Within that context, Some Lessons and Non-Lessons of Vietnam provides its greatest fascination.
The strategists, Summers key among them, view Vietnam in light of strategic theory. They are concerned with how things happened. The historians, comprising most of the media participants and professional academicians, see Vietnam as a model—some see it as an aberrant model—of history and human commerce. They are concerned with what happened and why.
One of the conference’s most striking counterpoints appears to have occurred following Colonel Summers’s presentation “Vietnam: Lessons Learned, Unlearned and Relearned” wherein he asserted that: “. . . our failure in Vietnam grew out of a lack of appreciation of military theory and military strategy, and especially the relationship between military strategy and national policy.” Temple University Professor Russel F. Weigley, an academic historian, disagreed strongly: “The truth is that the American military failed in Indochina not by employing insufficient conventional strategy, but by employing too much.” Strategist and historian basically agreed that the war could have had a different outcome but disagreed on the methods to attain that goal.
Some other valuable topics covered in this book include the U. S. conduct of the war between 1964 and 1973, strategy in 1965-67, President Lyndon Johnson’s decision making, the Nixon strategy, the anti-war movement, media influences on public opinion, social perspectives of the North and South Vietnamese, the U. S.- South Vietnam alliance, and the overall historical implications and impact of Vietnam. Appendices cover trends in popular support for the Vietnam War, a Vietnam chronology, and a Vietnam booklist.
The exhaustive record of this conference has yet to be published. When it is, that record will be a comprehensive and telling compendium. (Also, more selective coverage, presenting academic papers, appears in the Summer 1983 Wilson Quarterly, a volume of selected papers will be published in the summer of 1984.) The last words about Vietnam are far from being spoken, but this electric volume speaks some important—and
timely—ones.
Lieutenant Pocalyko, a LAMPS helicopter pilot from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 34 serving on board the USS Pharris (FF-1094), has previously reviewed books on Vietnam subjects in the Proceedings and was the winner of this year’s Vincent Astor Memorial Leadership Essay contest.
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Nancy Loring Goldman, Editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. 307 pp. Tables. Bib. Ind. $35.00 ($31.50).
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1983/464 pages/725 illustrations
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nations do not maintain their greatness by ignoring defects in those systems essential to their survival," General Krulak, in this provocative study made for the United States Strategic Institute, takes aim at the multiple layers of bureaucratic fat that have grown up in the Department of Defense. Acknowledging that we are on our way toward redressing weaknesses in our military defense, he makes clear that these efforts will be of little avail unless we correct the existing defects in our national security organization.
Bureaucracy, bloat, and instability in the top defense command structure, he says, defeat effective planning, decision making, and execution of operations, and these conditions must be brought under control.
General Krulak concludes his study with a set of solutions that are as clear and simple as they are needed.
Anyone interested in America's defense will find this short, punchy volume absorbing reading.
1983/141 pages/notes.
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Space Shuttle: America’s Wings to the Future,
2nd Edition
By Marshall H. Kaplan
Here is the how, what, when, and why of NASA's space shuttle. The system and its parts are described in everyday terms. Every phase of a typical mission is presented, including preparation and training of the crew, loading of the payloads, the sensation of liftoff and acceleration upwards, extravehicular activities in orbit, and the exciting reentry and landing benefits are reviewed, both from the introduction of the National Spaceline and from spaceflight in general.
Called one of the most comprehensive books on the subject available to the public, Space Shuttle has now been updated and revised to reflect recent changes in the program. New photographs taken from actual launches are included.
1983/246 pages/197 black & white and color illustrations/index/appendices
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