Sea Power and a National General Staff

By Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Hittle, U. S. Marine Corps
October 1949
A national general staff and strong sea power cannot, at the same time, exist in the same country. Present efforts to create a supreme general staff in the United States ...

Admiral Yamamoto

By James A. Field, Jr.
October 1949
In November, 1941, not one American in a thousand had ever heard of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet. A month later his name was ...

Preface to Leadership

By Herbert G. Telsey
October 1949
No longer, in any quarter, is it an obscure fact that the United States has arrived at an important juncture in history. The world situation has projected our country so ...

A Challenge for the Line Officer

By Commander James C. Shaw, U. S. Navy
October 1949
The Japanese pilot didn’t have a .chance; American bullets seared into his fragile craft, ignited the gas tanks and gouged great holes in the fuselage. Trailing a long streamer of ...

The Shape of Tomorrow's Torpedo

By Warren Hughes
October 1949
Though submarine officers and crews have come to be known as the “silent service” because of their unboastful attitude, the boats themselves are sometimes far from silent, making unwelcome noises ...

Battleship Banzai!*

By Captain Walter Karig, U.S. Naval Reserve (Ret.), Lieutenant Commander Russell Harris, U.S. Naval Reserve, and Lieutenant Commander Frank A. Manson, U.S. Navy
October 1949
In charting his plans to protect the invasion fleet at Okinawa, in March 1945, Admiral Spruance allowed for the dubious possibility that the Japanese might try fast surface raids. So ...

Round-Shot to Rockets

By Lieutenant Commander Harry C. Allendorfer, U. S. Navy
October 1949
Did you realize that the world’s largest naval armament plant is the United States Naval Gun Factory, located a scant twelve blocks southeast of the Nation’s Capitol in Washington, D ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

October 1949
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Book Reviews

October 1949
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Professional Notes

October 1949
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