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Guerrilla Warfare

By Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Wilkins U. S. Army Reserve
March 1954
No longer a limited military tactic, guerrilla warfare has political and economic consequences that can be more dangerous than the armed force employed. Guerrilla warfare is an open sore that ...

German Naval Support Techniques In World War II

By Commander Roy O. Stratton (SC), U. S. Navy (Retired)
March 1954
Before the outbreak of World War II, the German Navy had no organized service force. Because of its size and mission, there was no need for mobile support techniques like ...

Distant Stations

By Robert Greenhalgh Albion
March 1954
During most of the nineteenth century, the United States maintained naval squadrons on several remote stations. Those distant squadrons of an earlier day have current interest, for their direct descendants ...

The Atlantic Ocean—Sea Of Decision

By Frank Uhlig, Jr.
March 1954
Once more this country has had to prepare for war or the possibility of war anywhere or everywhere over the earth. Twice in this century we fought world wars and ...

War Without Aircraft Carriers

By Lieutenant Commander Edward L. Barker, U. S. Naval Reserve
March 1954
The German and Italian Navies’ lack of aircraft carriers had a pronounced effect on the Axis conduct of war at sea. Goering’s Luftwaffe was not an adequate substitute. Italian naval ...

A Line Officer Looks At Military Law

By Captain B. F. Brown, U. S. Navy
March 1954
While there has been a great deal of comment in the last few years on the subject of military law, the bulk of it has been concerned with the technicalities ...

The Royal Canadian Navy

By Peter C. Newman
March 1954
No man-made border breaks the frothy turbulence of the indivisible sea. The North American continent has now become a single fortress, to be defended at sea against all aggressors who ...

Leaders and Leadership

By Edmund A. Gibson
March 1954
Probably no one subject connected with the military art has received as much concentrated attention from writers in recent years as the subject of leadership. Practically every full-length work written ...

Circles For Zig-Zags

By Commander William M. Pepper, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
March 1954
In the maneuvering board problem of using a prescribed speed to intercept a ship that will change course or speed in a specified manner, it is well known that we ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

March 1954
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Book Reviews

March 1954
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Professional Notes

March 1954
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