The Naval Technical Mission to Japan

By Captain Winthrop Slocum, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
January 1949
In the summer of 1945, when the tremendous momentum of our drive was rolling up the islands of the Pacific and bringing close the planned invasion of the Japanese homeland ...

The Less Tangible Factors

By Chief Quartermaster William James Miller, U. S. Navy
January 1949
Although the various compilations of quotations by Bartlett, Fuller, Stevenson, and the like abound with appropriate references to the qualities of comradeship, honesty, manliness, bravery, and the sea and seamen ...

The Role of Land Forces in Future Warfare

By Major General Charles L. Bolte, U. S. Army
January 1949
It is no longer possible (if it ever was) to deal with the role of land forces in a future conflict without including concurrent consideration of the missions of naval ...

The New Battle Cruisers

By F. R. Uhlig, Jr.
January 1949
In the years between the two great wars Germany built three warships with which she frightened the parliaments of half the world. These were the famous “pocket battleships”— Deutschland (renamed ...

"Where Do We Go From Here?"

By Commander John S. McCain, Jr., U. S. Navy
January 1949
The professional education of the naval officer, a subject of grave importance, should be re-examined in the light of World War II experience. The idea that the only roads to ...

The United States Navy and The Open Door Policy

By Captain Lucius C. Dunn, U. S. Navy (Retired)
January 1949
Admiral, I am certainly pleased with my new assignment,” enthusiastically remarked a young Lieutenant (junior grade) who had just received his first orders to the Asiatic Station. “You know things ...

The Naval Academy in Transition

By Major John E. Williams, U. S. Marine Corps
January 1949
Week after week, month after month, the word comes floating back from the Fleet: "We hear the plebes have really taken over Bancroft Hall"—"What's all this dope about first class ...

Vocational Schools and the United States Navy

By Lieutenant Commander George W. Dyson, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
January 1949
One of the major problems which faces the United States Navy is that of securing enlisted personnel both for the active operating forces and the active and inactive reserves. As ...

Our Duty Lies Before Us

By Lieutenant Commander Edward L. Beach, U. S. Navy
January 1949
Today, only a few years after the conclusion of a World War, the people of this country find themselves asking, uneasily, whether or not we shall have to fight World ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

January 1949
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Book Reviews

January 1949
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Professional Notes

January 1949
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