The Principles of War

By Rear Admiral C. R. Brown, U. S. Navy
June 1949
Introduction No one ever seems to discuss the principles of war without quoting General Forrest. The author will be no exception. The General managed to sum up in one brief ...

The Typhoon Lady

By Lieutenant (j.g.) Robert J. Lauer, U. S. Navy
June 1949
Quite a few naval vessels weathered quite a few typhoons during the recent war in the Pacific, but I feel that very few could approach the record of survivals per ...

Stalin and Hitler (Part I) The Pact with Moscow

By Vice Admiral Kurt Assmann, former German Navy Translated by Captain Roland E. Krause, U. S. Navy
June 1949
Little has been published as to how the German pact with Moscow came into J being. At the beginning of 1948 the U. S. State Department published a series of ...

When Is An Order?

By Captain Alan McCracken, U. S. Navy
June 1949
If we can believe the centurion who is quoted in the New Testament, it must have been relatively easy, two thousand years ago, to carry out the functions of authority ...

British Seventeenth Century Claims to Sovereignty of the Seas

By Lieutenant Commander H. F. Rommel, U. S. Navy and Associate Professor E. H. Clark, Jr., U. S. Naval Academy
June 1949
One spring day in 1947 Lieutenant Commander Rommel, then attending the General Line School at Newport, visited a local antique shop and there noticed and subsequently purchased a very interesting ...

Inventory Control Hits The Fleet

By Commander Lamar Lee, Jr., SC, U. S. Navy
June 1949
For several years now the Navy Department has been extolling the many virtues of the Navy’s Inventory Control Program. We have been convinced that this program offers military as well ...

Staff Duty

By Lieutenant Commander Malcolm W. Cagle, U. S. Navy
June 1949
Sooner or later, almost every young naval officer experiences that occasion of walking into the personnel office and being greeted with the yeoman’s statement: “A set of orders came in ...

Recent Developments in Navigation

By Commander Alton B. Moody, U. S. Naval Reserve
June 1949
Man has been navigating for many centuries. It would seem that there would be little room left for improving his methods, yet he has been able to determine his longitude ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

June 1949
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Book Reviews

June 1949
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Professional Notes

June 1949
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