Will We Need A Navy To Win?

By Captain Ernest M. Eller, U. S. Navy
March 1950
I As we look into the future, what role do we see the Navy playing in keeping the United States strong and free? Is this role important? Does the march ...

Political Limitations of Air Power

By Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Kintner, U. S. Army
March 1950
Air Power’s climb to the position of America’s first line of defense has not simplified our quest for security, hut rather has made the search more complicated and more costly ...

Too Much Accuracy

By Rear Admiral Richard G. Voge, U. S. Navy (deceased)
March 1950
In the spring of 1933 Collier's Magazin e, in making its annual selection of the All-American basketball team, picked Midshipman Charles Elliot Loughlin of the U. S. Naval Academy for ...

The Navy Has No Foreman's Problem

By Commander Joseph L. Miller, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
March 1950
Industry might well take a look at the United States Navy’s supervisory structure and what makes it tick. There may be some lessons to learn. The Navy today is one ...

Isthmian Interlude

By Lieutenant Commander Henry Salomon, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
March 1950
Between the Atlantic and the Pacific, north of the Yucatan and south of Mexico City, lies the Isthmus of Tehuantepec where very probably man developed his first static, civilized society ...

Berlin Airlift Proved Unification Can Work

By Brendan P. Mulready, JOG, U. S. Naval Reserve
March 1950
During the winter of 1948-49 the Berlin Airlift offered the finest example of unification of the armed forces in action ever demonstrated to the public in the post-World War II ...

Queen's Navy At War

By Vice Admiral G. W. Stöve, Royal Netherlands Navy (Ret.)
March 1950
Anyone who has ever read Motley’s well-known book, The Rise of the Dutch Republic , and Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Fall of the Dutch Republic , will remember that ...

Aerial Survey of Southeastern Alaska, 1948

By Commander Thomas F. Pollock, U. S. Navy
March 1950
In March 1948, Patrol Squadron Four had been commissioned four months and was at Miramar, California, in the process of shakedown training for normal patrol operations. Two months later, this ...

Ocean Shipping and Control

By Commander Peter R. Lackner, U. S. Navy
March 1950
At no time history have merchant vessels played so vital a role in the prosecution of a world-wide conflict as they did in the trying days of World War II ...

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