Decision Without Battle

By Dr. Stefan T. Possony
June 1946
Exactly 26 years after the Battle of the Marne had deprived Germany of victory in the first World War, Winston Churchill spoke grave words to the British nation. He said ...

The Development of a Destroyer Watch Officer

By Commander W. B. Porter, U. S. Navy
June 1946
Watch standing, particularly in the smaller combatant vessels of the destroyer and destroyer escort classes, has changed considerably in its requirements since early 1940. Prior to that time junior officers ...

The Peacetime Duties of the Armed Services

By Captain R. A. Hall, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1946
The duty of a professional military man obliges him to be a pessimist. He must be the “no” man for idealism and wishful thinking. Unpopular as it makes him during ...

A Proper Conception of Advanced Bases

By Captain J. M. Kennaday, U. S. Navy
June 1946
Early in 1942 the Navy began the unprecedented task of building advanced bases for the war in the Pacific. This work had some background of experience in the Atlantic at ...

"Idle Hands...or Hobbies?"

By Chief Machinist Charles M. Hatcher, U. S. Navy
June 1946
Familiar to students of naval history is the maxim that a navy is only as good as its ships, its bases, and its men. The United States Navy today has ...

Tropical Cruise

By Vice Admiral Russell Willson, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1946
On January 8, 1921, the U.S.S. Mason, a war-built “four stacker,” was attached to the Twenty-Fifth Destroyer Division of the Atlantic Fleet, then in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The ship ...

A Post-War Naval Reserve

By Captain Howard G. Copeland, U. S. Naval Reserve
June 1946
Some time back the Bureau of Naval Personnel addressed a questionnaire to certain Naval Reserve officers asking for a free and frank expression of opinion on the subject of a ...

Navigational Lights Under Wartime Conditions

By Lieutenant Commander George W. Dyson, U. S. Naval Reserve, and Charles Wilkenloh
June 1946
The origin of navigational lights, like the origin of many other utilitarian devices, is impossible to determine. Just when the volume of water-borne traffic became great enough to cause some ...

Honored in War, Honored in Peace

By Captain Frederick J. Nelson, U. S. Navy
June 1946
Now that peace has come, most of the men and women in the armed services will return to civilian pursuits. Their uniforms will be hung in the back of some ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

June 1946
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Book Reviews

June 1946
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Notes on International Affairs

June 1946
STRUGGLE FOR PEACE SETTLEMENTS Thin Results at Paris.—On May 16 the conference of Big Four foreign ministers adjourned for one month. Results were meager and conflicts almost as sharp ...

Professional Notes

June 1946
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