Always The Sea

By Admiral Robert B. Carney, U. S. Navy
May 1955
One of the curious aspects of the sea is that organized sea power had been maintained in some degree for about 4,000 years before man made a determined effort to ...

Prelude to Midway

By Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya
May 1955
The Midway operation had two central objectives. The first and more limited one was the seizure of Midway as an advance air base to facilitate early detection of enemy carrier ...

West Germany, A Candidate For Membership In Nato

By Rear Admiral Howard E. Orem, U. S. Navy
May 1955
Current United States national policy sponsors collective security arrangements as a means to increase national and international security. During the past five years, two areas—Tibet and North Vietnam—and several small ...

Reserves—What Kind?

By Commander D. J. Carrison, U. S. Navy
May 1955
The question of greatest concern to the American people as a whole today is the problem of future survival and the wisest use of the resources that will ensure it ...

Ally to the South! The Peruvian Navy

By Lieutenant John B. Ferris, U. S. Naval Reserve
May 1955
Back in 1951 it looked like “old times” again when many of the once familiar Fletcher Class destroyers began to reappear at naval bases all over the world. These ships ...

Community Planning And The Naval Air Station

By Lieutenant Commander E. F. Van Lier Ribbink, U. S. Navy
May 1955
Noise is causing the Navy and communities located adjacent to the Naval Air Stations a multi-million dollar headache. Peculiarly enough, this is a problem that concerns more seriously naval aviation ...

Safety of Life At Sea

By Captain Ralph R. Gurley, U. S. Navy (Retired)
May 1955
Safety regulations are usually the result of sad experience. Regulations for the safety of life at sea are no exception. The current body of international regulations for the construction and ...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Over The Seas

By Lieutenant Commander Charles Moran, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
May 1955
I A cold, sullen, cloudy day broke over the old Baltic town of Libau on October 14, 1904, a day which no amount of fluttering bunting, pealing bells or martial ...

The Russo-Japanese War (Pictorial Section)

Prepared by Commander E. H. Clark, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
May 1955
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Discussions, Comments and Notes

May 1955
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Book Reviews

May 1955
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Professional Notes

May 1955
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Origins of the Navy's War Staff

By Commander Neville T. Kirk, U.S. Naval Reserve
May 1955
Admiral Luce in his campaign for a naval war college during the early 1880’s lost no opportunity to call attention to the professional pitfalls arising from the competition of ...

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