The Disturbing Outlook in the Orient

By Captain Dudley W. Knox, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1938
*This article was submitted in the Prize Essay Contest, 1938. “Though all the world be at peace if the art of war be forgot there is peril.”—Ancient Chinese proverb. The ...

The Three-Mile Limit of Territorial Waters

By Lieutenant Commander W. E. Hilbert, U. S. Navy
June 1938
I. The Rule TodayThe rule of the 3-mile limit of terri­torial waters, while subject to cer­tain exceptions in respect to strictly national problems, may safely be consid­ered, for all ...

Naval Trial Courses and Trials

By Lieutenant Commander L. T. Haugen (C.C.), U. S. Navy
June 1938
It has been observed on trial trips that ships’ officers are very much interested in the trial course and how trials are run. As there is very little literature on ...

The Most Slandered Man in History

By Alan Cornwall Smith
June 1938
A few miles outside of the modern city of Panama stand some ancient ruins, gray masses of masonry which have been brooding there in their desolation for nearly three centuries ...

Three Naval Campaigns: A Study in Disaster

By Lieutenant Philip R. Osborn, U. S. Navy
June 1938
Many marked similarities occur in the study of the famous naval campaigns of history, both in regard to the conduct and to the theory of naval war. Nowhere does this ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

June 1938
More About "Safety First, Second, or Third"(See page 1144, August, 1937, PROCEEDINGS)(See page 1626, November, 1937, PROCEEDINGS)(See page 261, February, 1938, PROCEEDINGS)LIEUTENANT COMMANDER J. H. B. V. WEELDEREN, U. S ...

Book Reviews

June 1938
JAPAN MUST FIGHT BRITAIN. By Lieutenant Commander Tota Ishimaru, I.J.N. Translated by Instructor- Captain G. V. Rayment, C.B.E.,R. N. (Retired). Harrisburg, Pa.: The Telegraph Press. 1936. 340 pages. $3.00. Reviewed ...

Notes on International Affairs

Prepared by Professor Allan Westcott, U.S. Naval Academy
June 1938
NEW BRITISH TIESFranco-British Alliance.—What amounted to a close military and naval defensive alliance between France and the United Kingdom was brought to completion at the meeting between French and British ...

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