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°ppQere ls bound to be objection and advaSltI<?n t0 a proposal like the one in ^ere- There are professionals who h *3ersonne* management field the be3Ve ^e^*cate^ huge effort and ducin<_ttC|I" ^arts °h their careers to rein,-® C e Pat'ent, prisoner, and ent (pp&t) “pipeline,” in which
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annua)] ^ num^er man-years is it are . y ^0st> since the individuals in the fig11 *’rnbo and are not helping It cj] 5° Set on with its business. Would k 6 arSued that the pipeline clearin u SWo^en by the creation of by.pro? 0uses> but some desirable that 0UrUCtS Would accrue. The first is iiApraccounting procedures would e’ We would know better
where more of our people in limbo are located, know that something is being done about their cases, and know in advance about how many people will be available for duties which could be regularly performed. This latter point could very well take some additional heat off the fleet in the ever-controversial area of temporary additional duty support from fleet units to their host stations for general military duties.
Given the wide variety and number of seemingly unrelated, disconnected human resources programs, centers, and facilities which have sprung into Navy life in the past few years, it seems that the smartest
thing we could do would be to pull them all together into a funneling point which a clearing house would represent. It would be a big-picture move to create such centers, because it would help fleet readiness and the fleet commanding officer as well as the individual with a problem. Because so many of these different centers and facilities already exist, not many new billets would be required to execute this proposal.
We really must get the ship and squadron commanding officer out of the social work business and provide him with a workable alternative as these never-ending problems arise at an apparently increasing rate.
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factors of production: money, equipment, materials, and labor. The relationship between competition at the research and development stage and sole-source negotiated procurement of the larger production and support contracts is given special treatment, as are the structural differences between the aircraft and the shipbuilding industries. There is also a brief description of how our allies handle their defense industries. All of this goes to make Gansler’s case that it is not correct for the defense industry to apply rules based on laissez faire economic theory.
Gansler goes so far as to attempt a rough quantification of the excess costs associated with current practices. For example, lack of production competition costs $1.75 billion annually; design for maximum performance also costs $1.75 billion; very low production rates S.7 billion; large design teams and excessive data requirements demand $1.0 billion, and so on. His total for excessive costs are S5.0 billion by one method of estimation and S4.5 billion by another. Based on this, he suggests that $3.0 billion would be a realistic target for annual savings if his
prescriptive measures were applied. This, of course, brings the reader to the crux of the matter.
Gansler calls for coordinated policy—sector by sector. He favors a meaningful integration of civilian and military operations within the defense firms. More attention should be paid to parts suppliers and subcontractors. He expresses concern for the growing dependence of the U. S. defense industry on foreign military sales. Another area that requires additional attention is improved planning for production surges. Industrial-base considerations must guide procurements in terms of timing, source selection, separation of research and development programs, budgets, etc.
After 256 pages of setting the stage, Gansler deals with the proposed solutions in 28 pages. One may have hoped for more definition, even a “work book" approach to the solutions paralleling his extensive earlier development of the problems. Perhaps, however, the fleshing out of the solutions will be the focus for the author’s next book. 1 hope so, because many of his recommendations have merit.
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Diary Of The Cuban Revo1^’
Carlos Franqui. New York: Viking 1980. 546 pp. Ind. $16.95 (Jl'b 1 el
Reviewed by Lieutenant Colon H. Menzel, U. S. Army
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Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: The Last Naval Hero
Stephen Roskill. New York: Atheneum, 1981. 430 pp. lllus. Maps. Ind. $19.95 ($17.95).
Reviewed by Eric J. Grove
A graduate from Aberdeen and London universities, Air. Grove is working as an exchange professor at the U. S. Naval Academy this year. He is also working on research projects in recent naval history, including a biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfeld.
Although one might quibble with the subtitle of Captain Roskill’s latest book, which overlooks at least one other strong British candidate for the title “last naval hero,” Andrew Cunningham, it is hard to fault this masterly new biography of David, Earl Beatty. As Roskill makes clear in his fascinating foreword, the 2nd Earl Beatty prevented the “authorized work” of Rear Admiral W. S. Chalmers from giving anything close to a comprehensive picture of his father. In some ways this is hardly surprising, given Beatty’s stormy private life and string of mistresses. Captain Roskill has been lucky enough to have gained access to the correspondence of one of Beatty’s illicit liaisons, Eugenie God- frey-Fausset. As might be expected, this gives a fascinating new perspective on the author’s “hero,” although one sometimes feels that the availability of source material has put perhaps too much of a spotlight on Beatty’s relationship with this particular lady. As Captain Roskill explains, there were, apparently, “several” paramours, whose correspondence, tidily filed into bundles with pictures and memos, was burned after Beatty’s death.
Captain Roskill opened up more than new personal perspectives. His familiarity with and use of recent research in British naval history make his biography perhaps the only truly up-to-date account of Beatty’s times presently available. In particular, the author has exploited the vitally important recent work of Anthony Pollen and Jon Sumida on the deficiencies of the Royal Navy’s fire control. The sad story of the plagiarism of Arthur Pollen’s fire control instruments to produce the hopelessly inferior Dreyer system which the fleet received adds a whole new dimension to the story of the battle cruisers at Jutland. Roskill also uses the excellent work of John Campbell to prove that, contrary to the insistence of Admiral Lord Chatfield, the Battle Cruiser Force did indeed shoot badly. Beatty and Chatfield do not emerge altogether unscathed from Roskill’s account of the postwar Jutland controversy and the vexed question of the “Harper Record” (a study of the Battle of Jutland), although as one might expect, the author’s conclusions on this episode are fair.
Captain Roskill told this reviewer the sad news that this book might be his last major work, and it is good to report, therefore, that it is one of his best. Through the years, Captain Ros- kill’s books have gained in clarity and in their stimulating directness of analysis. He also seems to have increasingly allowed his own experiences and prejudices to add color to his judicious analyses, which is not bad. Sometimes, however, the results can be just a little less than fair. For instance, Roskill’s use of his own experiences at the Royal
Naval College, Dartmouth, to 1SCU^ the deficiencies of Beatty’s training^ HMS Britannia ignores the &ct there had been an attempt at a damental shake-up of naval e<^uca .f between 1885 and the closing >"c3r^[ World War I. It is misleading, lf plain wrong, to argue that the , nia system “continued little c „
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was at Dartmouth at a particular y ^ and difficult point in the College5^
obviously traumatic, they shou really be used to judge on an ^ scheme of training that had many ^ fundamental weaknesses than t e 1905 system. gnJ|ie
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rogate in Latin America and A ^ still playing a significant role e5tP^ subversion and terrorism as Partfle«f Communist game plan to creat^g(\] (°! world order. It is important ^ what it does tell (and there lS ^ and for what it does not tell (an ^t is even more). For a fuller perSP^^os of the period covered (from the£0[r to 1959), it should be read in^sSj- junction with former U. S. dor to Cuba Earl E. T.
Fourth Floor and Cuban Iawyer Lazo’s Dagger in The Heart■
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s°me^ars °f misery and degradation, which a tr°pical hellhole from
With ^ year f 10,000 Cubans fled °n y the clothes on their backs.
ing the last couple of years a virtual repeat of the whole shameful affair in Nicaragua. Either we do not learn from our mistakes, or there is more to this irritating situation.
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Castro ^ ^emn and Marx, exploit *earne<I his lessons well and both Q , t^le useful idiots” from Lenjn sU.a anci the United States who tpate Sai<a Were essential to the uld- tain[„ ^CCeSS °f the revolution. Cer- of
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Paying the Modern Military
Martin Binkin and Irene Kyriakopoulos. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1981. 84 pp. Append. 13.95 (paper).
Reviewed by Captain T. M. Hale,
U. S. Navy
Captain Hale is assigned to Ihe Compensation and Entitlements Policy Office on the OpNav staff. He received the 1980 Navy League Award for Research and Writing at The National War College and has coauthored with his wife several recent articles on pay- related issues in the Proceedings.
Paying the Modern Military is the second Binkin and Kyriakopoulos booklet in the Brookings Institution series on defense policy studies. Their first effort, Youth or Experience? Manning the Modem Military, focused on the need to retain an experienced force to operate the increasing numbers of high-technology weapon systems being introduced into service. Binkin and Kyriakopoulos take this observation two steps further in Paying the Modern Military by proposing active duty and retirement pay reforms designed to attract and retain the skilled enlisted manpower and experience levels needed to man the military force adequately.
The booklet was released with a flood of publicity in January 1981 as prominent reports in the major daily newspapers and the service newspapers appeared. Coincidentally, the booklet reached the newsstands about the same time a major new Department of Defense pay study group was beginning to look at changes to the military compensation system. For these reasons, the book has received much more attention than it deserves, as it attempts to do too much with too little, too soon. There may sometime come a day when major surgery can be done to the military compensation system, but it is too malnourished and weak to stand the strain of such surgery for the foreseeable future.
Chapter one discusses two central issues of the all volunteer force: recruitment and retention. The authors gloss over the recruitment problem with the observation that it could be addressed by higher pay, lower personnel quality standards, or a return to conscription. The focus is on the challenge of selectively retaining an experienced force. In their view, the current pay system retains too many of the lower skilled enlisted force and too few of the higher skilled needed for the modern military. The contention is made that, "The ascendancy of technicians and specialists over warriors that technological substitution has brought about in the armed forces has so industrialized the military institution that a large segment of it now resembles civilian organizations.” This may be true in some sectors of the military, but try telling the electrician on board ship that his job is similar to a journeyman electrican in the private sector. He is liable to ask you to explain how long his civilian counterpart is separated from his family, how often he is required to move his entire household for the convenience of the government, and why the civilian draws overtime pay and he does not.
Chapters two and three contain an overview of the current compensation system and a discourse on flaws in the system. These chapters establish the rationale for the reforms in pay and retirement proposed in the concluding two chapters. The authors criticize the military pay system because it is based on an outmoded (in their view) concept of years of service and rank. They would prefer a more efficient system similar to the civil sector where pay is normally based on skill level and occupation. The military system, the authors charge, “fails to recognize that some jobs are perceived as being less attractive, more difficult, less demanding, or simply better or worse than others.” This is an unfair indictment. Actually, the system is responsive in time of real need. As a case in point, the recent large increases in sea, flight, and submarine duty pay, extension of bonus payments for skill ratings, and enactment of the Variable Housing Allowance were designed to correct skill-or assignment-
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ment of the econometrician spe1 ing in military affairs who has to ig the realities of military life in or demonstrate that the member reacts d efficient way when m ing a career decision. In this
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related compensation deficiencies. Those improvements were made because it was demonstrated to Congress that “people” have compensation problems, not “jobs.”
The one bright spot in the Binkin and Kyriakopoulos effort is their attempt to treat the force structure, pay system, and retirement program as a single system. Surprising as it may seem, none of the myriad of quadrennial reviews, pay commissions, or study groups of the past decade treated military pay reform other than as an end in itself. To their credit, the authors approached the pay problem systematically. They created their own perception of an ideal force structure and then developed a pay and retirement system they think is most efficiently suited to attract and retain that force. To do this, the authors proposed a pay system to meet the demands of a skilled work force that would be more competitive with the private sector, while retaining the hierarchical rank structure needed for the military institution. To do this, the authors propose to loosen the bond between rank and pay grade. In their view, a system with rank and pay grade as two separate structures with independent movement within each structure would be more effective as a device to provide adequate and selective compensation for the required skill levels. In such a system, the petty officer second class rank could be composed of pay grade E-6 yeomen, E-3 technicians, and E-5 gunner’s mates—all drawing different pay but with equal military rank. Since the military could theoretically maximize retention and experience levels with such a system, there would be no need for a retirement system which encourages the experienced force to opt for early retirement. In the authors’ view, the more skilled, experienced force needs an old- age pension system similar to that of the civil service.
The major shortcoming in the work is the underlying rationale that the military member is becoming a specialist first and a warrior second. This
be*
rationale is needed by the authors cause, in their paradigm, a specie more responsive to the demands o occupation than to that of the * tution. This is the neo-classical aff
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the warrior expresses such traits as alty, devotion to duty, and l°ve . country (along with economic c° erations) when making a decision reenlist. These traits are to a lar£e tent unquantifiable and thus are ana
ema to the econometrician " yj
trying to predict how the warriot^^ react to pay raises when making a decision.
The study attempts to convince^ reader that the warrior has turne a worker who only incidentally pens to be in the military. ^ u. viewer is not persuaded by the ment.
An unusual and colorful acco of naval life ashore and afloa ^ the late 18th century. Here description of a typical day board a man-of-war, a d*scUjSre- of the awesome powers an ^ sponsibilities of commanding fleers, and the specialized ta^f performed on a warship ua sail. Pope offers a compel j view of the social structure ^ harsh living conditions abo ^ ships of Nelson’s time, aswe' the severe disciplinary SXS Broad in scope, thorough n1^. a tail, and an exciting story j, jt navy during a period in win ruled the world’s oceans. 19811296 pageslillustrated
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c0Verl08raphies of great admirals to dis- etsh SOlTle key to the essence of naval lead- sty^ ^kis is John Horsfield’s goal in this t^St. Vincent, Nelson, and Colling- Jelll orn the Napoleonic era, Fisher and Keyes°e kt°m World War I, Beatty and Andr r°m tbe inter-war period, and Sir He ’“Onningham from World War II. Hjnj ^es not attempt to integrate these jtade !°®raPkies into a theory of naval cept0flp kut argues instead that “the con- study 5adership evolves from a thoughtful j-jj 0 events and personalities. ...”
Arm Gun: Battleship Main
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ktailecJrients tbat interest by providing Carrietj ^nk°rmat>on about the armament
Hes c.!’uth°Se. giant gun platforms. t'°I'ed ae^p*a‘ns how the big guns func- kbot0grP Pr°vides detailed diagrams and ktori^E s the muzzle loaders of the ,8-inchn era as well as the giant 16- and 8Uns of World War II and after.
Der Krim Krieg und seine Bedeutung fiir die Entstehung der modernen Flotten (The Crimean War and its Significance in the Development of Modern Fleets)
Wilhelm Treue. Herford, West Germany: Verlag E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1980. 144pp. Illus. Bib. DM 29.80 (Approx. $13.77).
The Crimean War of 1854-56 was devoid of great naval battles. Presumably because of this, naval historians have often treated it as devoid of interest. This study disagrees with that judgment, asserting that the experiences gained in French and British naval operations made the struggle a watershed in the evolution of modern fleets: “in no other war of the 19th century was so great a stride made from the navies of the 18th century to those of the 20th century.” A notable feature of the work is the author's use of previously untapped reports from the Vienna archives.
Warship Commander, 1967—1987: Present Day Tactical Naval Combat
Ken Smigelski, Editor. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Enola Games, 1981. 68 pp. $9.95.
Enola Games is a company that produces rule books for war simulation games. This particular set deals with antisurface and antiair operations. (A similar game—Sea Command—deals with antisubmarine operations.) The game is played using miniature warship models (also available) and does not require a computer or other special equipment. Accuracy tables, loss tables, and all other necessary data are included in the booklet.
MARITIME AFFAIRS
The Conquest of the North Atlantic
G. J. Marcus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. 224 pp. Illus. Maps. Bib. Ind. $25.00 ($22.50).
In this brief but incisive essay, naval historian G. J. Marcus turns his attention to the early voyages of exploration and discovery from the 6th century to the 17th century. In particular, Marcus emphasizes the contributions rendered by Irishmen who put to sea in small sailing currachs. It was the Irish, he claims, and not the Norsemen who discovered Iceland. He does give the Vikings credir, however, for the discoveries of both Greenland and North America, though he scornfully rejects the authenticity of the Yale “Vinland map." This is a book for scholars and serious students of the age of discovery.
The Wreck of the Amoco Cadiz
David Fairhall and Philip Jordan. New York: Stein and Day, 1980. 248 pp. Illus. Maps.
Ind. $12.95 ($11.65).
On the night of 16 March 1978, the 230,000-ton tanker Amoco Cadiz went aground on the rocks off France’s Brittany coast creating the world's largest oil pollution disaster. This book is a detailed account of how the wreck came about and of the Herculean cleanup efforts which it made necessary. Finally, the authors critically survey the whole issue of supertanker oil transportation, including its economic and legal aspects.
MILITARY AFFAIRS
A Trial of Generals: Homma, Yamashita, Mac Arthur
Lawrence Taylor. South Bend, IN.: Icarus Press, 1981. 233 pp. Illus. Bib. Ind. $13.95 ($12.55).
A Los Angeles criminal lawyer suggests in this book that the trial and execution of the Japanese commanding generals in the Philippines—Homma, who bore final responsibility for the Bataan Death March; and Yamashita, whose forces ravaged Manila—were travesties of justice. Neither man was involved in or even aware of the crimes committed by his troops, yet both were found guilty and executed. Though based largely on Army trial transcripts, the narrative is dramatically written.
Ike’s Spies, Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
Stephen E. Ambrose. Garden City, NY.: Doubleday, 1981. 368 pp. Illus. Bib. Ind. $14.95 ($13.45).
In this book, Stephen Ambrose has combined his own interest in Eisenhower as a military commander with the popular interest in secret intelligence. Ambrose traces Ike's involvement with intelligence gathering and covert operations from his discovery of the existence of Ultra and his handling of the touchy Darlan affair in North Africa to the U-2 incident during his presidency.
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Richard J. Sommers. Garden City, NY.. Doubleday, 1981. 670 pp. lllus. Maps. Append. Bib. Ind. $22.50 ($20.25).
Richard Sommers has compiled a meticulously detailed battle narrative of one of General U. S. Grant’s several efforts to pierce the Confederate defensive line around Petersburg and Richmond in the fall of 1864. This is not a history of the entire siege, but rather a detailed look at one aspect of that siege—the four-day thrust (29 September to 2 October 1864) which Sommers calls Grant's “Fifth Offensive.”
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The Indian Ocean in Global Politics
Larry W. Bowman and Ian Clark, Editors. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1981. 260 pp. Ind. $25.00 ($22.50).
The Indian Ocean seems to have been rediscovered recently by the world's major powers. Flanked by the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Malacca, it is sure to be an area of continuing concern in the next decade. The chapters in this survey, nine of which were products of a conference in Perth, Australia, in August 1979, concentrate on three areas: an assessment of regional powers in the Indian Ocean area; the impact of major external powers interested in the region, especially the United States,
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Prospects of Soviet Power in the 1980s
Christoph Bertram, Editor. Hamden, CT.: ShoeString Press, 1980. 126 pp. $19.50 ($17.55).
This book contains 15 essays by members of the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies which are the products of a conference held in September 1978 in Oxford, England. Individual essays explore the role of ideology in Soviet policy, the Soviet world view, Soviet ambitions, capabilities, and limitations. Few of the authors are optimistic. They see the past as a guide to the future and postulate a continuing Soviet commitment to military and political expansion.
World Armaments and Disarmament (SIPRI Yearbook, 1980)
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). London: Taylor & Francis, 1980. (Distributed in the U. S. by Crane, Russak.) 514 pp. lllus. Ind. $49.50 ($44.55).
As in previous volumes, the SIPRI yearbook surveys worldwide military developments including spending, arms trade and proliferation, sensors and satellites, SALT negotiations, and U. N. peacekeeping, and is full of tables showing the relative expenditures of the major powers on military
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Edwin McDowell. New York: Vanguard,
1980. 320 pp. $10.95.
This book covers a topical Marine Corps issue: brutality in recruit training. The impact of the presentation is flawed through the conflict between an improbable senior drill instructor espousing a Nietzschean perfectibility of man through self-assertion, and an equally unique junior counterpart advocating an Aristotilian humanism in training recruits.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED
Boatbuilding Manual: Robert M. Steward. Camden, ME.: International Marine, 1980. 240 pp. Illus. Ind. $18.50 ($16.65).
The Evolution of U. S. Army Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1980: John P. Rose. Boulder, CO.: 1980. Westview Press, 1981. 252 pp. Bib. $24.75 ($22.27).
Farming the Waters: Peter R. Limburg. New York: Beaufort Books (Distributed by Scribner's),
1980. 223 pp. Illus. Bib. Ind. $10.95 ($9.85).
The Last Days of Patton: Ladislas Farago. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. 319 pp. Ind. $12.95 ($11.65).
The Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain: Armand van Ishoven. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1981. 128 pp. Illus. $19.95 ($17.95).
Puerto Rico's Fighting 65th U. S. Infantry: From San Juan to Chorwan: Brig. Gen. W. W. Harris, USA (Ret.). San Rafael, CA.: Presidio Press, 1980. 220 pp. Illus. Maps. Append. Ind. $12.95 ($11.65).
Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance: David Schoenbrun. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980. 513 pp. Illus. Bib. Ind. $15.95 ($14.35).
Uniforms of the World: A Compendium of Army, Navy, and Air Force Uniforms 1700—1937: Herbert Knotel, Jr., and Herbert Sieg. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. 483 pp. Illus. $30.00 ($27.00).
U. S. Bombers, 1928-1980s: Lloyd S. Jones. Fallbrook, CA.: Aero, 1980. 271 pp. Illus. Append. $15.95 ($14.35).
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