The Calculation of Risk

By Captain J. C. Wylie, Jr., U. S. Navy
July 1953
There are occasions when rational analysis and the formal estimate of the situation will not produce the answer that we feel in our bones is the right one. Then we ...

The Bloody Breakout*

By Captain William J. Davis, U. S. Marine Corps
July 1953
The First Marine Division in Korea is built around three infantry regiments, the 1st, the 5th, and the 7th Marines. We of the 7th, along with the 5th, were up ...

Hail, Hail, The Gang's All There

By Lieutenant W. B. Hayler, U. S. Navy
July 1953
The war in Korea is three years old. The lives lost there in the struggle against Communism cannot be reclaimed. It is encouraging, however, to know that the lessons previously ...

Crimea and Korea

By J. M. Spaight
July 1953
It is a far cry from the Crimea in 1854-56 to Korea in 1950-53, but the wars waged in those theatres in those years come at a few points within ...

Must We Live in Fear?

By Captain George H. Miller, U. S. Navy
July 1953
We are a frightened people! The citizens of the United States of America, that colossus among nations, live in fear. Our children are taught to hide beneath their school room ...

The Attack on Quallah-Battoo

By Second Lieutenant R. F. Daley, U. S. Marine Corps
July 1953
I ate eighteenth and early nineteenth century trade in the Far East by major European powers was based on monopolistic traffic, each with its own colonies, in the mercantilist tradition ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

July 1953
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Book Reviews

July 1953
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Professional Notes

July 1953
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