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Der Seekrieg, The German Navy’s Story 1938-1945
By Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, Navy of the German Federal Republic. Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1957. 432 pages. 43 photographs, 19 charts. $5.00 ($3.00).
REVIEWED BY
Vice Admiral W. L. Ainsworth, USN (Ret.)
(In the “Neutrality Period'’’ prior to our entry into the war, Admiral Ainsworth’s destroyers escorted our troops to Iceland and patrolled the Denmark Straits. He later led various task forces and groups in the advance across the Pacific, from night actions in the Solomons to the landings in Leyte.)
The author is presently the German Naval Commander, comparable to our Chief of Naval Operations. Some ten or twelve years ago, he was one of a small group of naval officer prisoners of war—with retentive memories selected by our Commander Naval Forces Germany for the job of collecting data from German source material for intelligence and historical purposes. This book is no doubt, in part at least, the end result of this research. He here presents, in one volume, both the German war at sea and our own war across the Pacific. The author’s estimate of the impact of the American entry into the war upon the German capacity to resist is in the best Clausewitz tradition. The book in its entirety is a treatise, an Influence of Sea Power Upon History, for World War II. The heavy overlay of data needed for an adequate presentation of his case makes the reading tedious in spots; but the narrative is brief and startlingly informative on many points which have hitherto been obscure.
Covering the war in all oceans from the standpoint of grand strategy, Ruge, the historian, is really at his best—indeed the “Monday morning Quarterback” (this term is bestowed as a real compliment). In ruthless critical analysis of the plays called by the head coach from the bench, he shows how some selected play might have scored; but the conclusion is inevitable—without control of the ball the game itself could not be won. Ruge is no “yes man” and no apologist.
One cannot but be lost in admiration of the accomplishments of the German Navy. Fleet Admiral King led our Navy with the exhortation “Make the most of what you have.” German industry, under all the stresses and demands of war, was able to bring the submarine potential almost to the point of victory. The surface Navy, restricted in size by the terms imposed by World War I, played its planned commerce raiding role against heavy odds, and gave a very good account of itself. The author makes it clear that much more might have been accomplished had there been effective coordination at the top—an efficient command structure. Ruge lays the failure of the Mediterranean campaign to lack of Ger- man-Italian cooperation at the Supreme Command level—with consequent failure of air-sea communications needed for tactical concentration at the scene of battle. The German Navy had no air arm of its own; and Ruge ascribes the failure of the submarine war to Goring’s dictum “The air belongs to me.” According to Hitler—the Navy, having so little, was asking too much.
The author’s admiration for the achievements of the Royal Navy—and our own—is manifest. His masterful analysis of the Medi-
terranean campaign leaves one wondering how the British ever lasted to win—and no doubt Admiral Cunningham was at times a bit mystified as to just how he might last also. Our dual thrust across the far reaches of the Pacific—MacArthur’s supply line protected by Nimitz’ island-hopping advance—is contrasted to Hitler’s supreme strategy as dictated by the continental military concept.
According to Admiral Ruge, the Russian campaign should have opened with concentration on the sea lanes first; secure the Medi- terranean-Danube-Black Sea route to the South, and the Baltic to the North, to provide a water-pincers supply line for the dual thrusts of the German armies. Another contrast: our control of the sea in the Pacific allowed us to bypass Rabaul, with 100,000 Japanese, and countless other thousands in their perimeter defenses; the Germans lost their sea communications in the Mediterranean, and Rommel’s Afrika Korps, 250,000 men, had to surrender. What price heritage— Yorktown!
And even the data and statistics give a basis for extended study. I unhesitatingly recommend Der Seekrieg as required reading for all naval officers contemplating assignment to the Mediterranean. Also, officers of all services—■ and others—-who are disposed toward the single chief of staff idea should read 'his book. We know the Germans lost the war; let us try to learn how and why they lost it. Should we ever have one “Master Military Mind,” let us hope that it will be one attuned to the power of the sea.
Brassey’s Annual: The Armed Forces Year-Book, 1957
Edited by Rear-Admiral H. G. Thursfield.
New York: The Macmillan Company,
1957. 440 pages and 30 photographs. $9.50.
REVIEWED BY
Frank Uhlig, Jr.
{Mr. Uhlig is editor oj Our Navy magazine.)
This issue of Brassey, composed of thirty essays by British authorities on a variety of military subjects, covers three main areas: the Middle Eastern problem, the future of air
power, and the future makeup of Britain’s military forces. On the last, it doesn’t seem that much new has been said.
But a great deal of vigorous thought has been given to the other themes, and since the United States is vitally concerned with both the future of air power and the future of the Middle East, it would profit the American officer to dip into this volume.
Of especial interest we found Major E. O’Ballance’s “Israel and the Arab World” and Air Vice-Marshal W. M. Yool’s “The Evolution of Strategic Bombing.” In the fomer article the military contests between Israel and the Arab states, chiefly Egypt, are covered briefly along with a reminder that Israel, far outnumbered though she is in raw population, can muster a bigger army than all the Arab states, a combination, by the way, which has never existed. For those who look for peace and “reason” in the Middle East in the immediate or even the distant future, this essay will be disheartening, though probably a necessary corrective.
As for strategic bombing, Air Vice-Marshal Yool feels that “the wheel has come full circle” since extensive claims were first put forward in its behalf forty years ago, and that the nuclear bomb, which at last gave to strategic air power the weapon it needed to fulfill its self-proclaimed mission, also made it unlikely that strategic air power could ever be employed.
In closing, we recommend Captain Cyril Falls’ discussion of the Anglo-French assault on Suez. No American naval or Marine Corps officer could not read this essay without feeling that his service is on the right track for at least the immediate future.
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
By Henry A. Kissinger. New York: Harper and Brothers for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1957. 455 pages. $5.00.
REVIEWED BY
Colonel William R. Kintner, USA
{Colonel Kintner currently is Special Assistant for International Affairs, Office of the Chief of Staff, Headquarters, United States Army Communications Zone, Europe.)
Few books in recent years in the domain of foreign affairs have created a stir comparable
to that of Dr. Kissinger’s Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. Widely reviewed and commented upon, it has already become a landmark in the literature of the atomic age.
It was this reviewer’s privilege to sit in on some of the sessions at the Council on Foreign Relations in which this book originated. Dr. Kissinger was given in these meetings a remarkable opportunity to confront the entire spectrum of technical, military, and diplomatic factors introduced by nuclear developments. The competence and status of the study group members provided a factually authoritative base for the study.
As the chairman of the study group, Mr. Gordon Dean, indicated, Dr. Kissinger was given the fullest possible freedom in developing his personal interpretation of the known facts. Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy consequently represents an individual insight mto many important facets of an international order made revolutionary as much by atomic weapons as any other force. Its merit lies in its penetrating analysis of the dynamic relation between the gigantic new forces of the atom and the established modes of international accommodation or conflict.
Dr. Kissinger’s book breaks into three distinct parts. The first, “The Problems of Survival,” consists of a historical survey of the impact of nuclear weapons on American policy and strategy; the second part, “Technology and Strategy,” provides a sound and comprehensive summary of the novel technical and military problems connected with nuclear weapons, the relation of total and limited war and, as well, the dubious prospects for the kinds of disarmaments that have so frequently been considered in fruitless diplomatic discussions between East and West. The final portion of the study, entitled “Strategy and Policy,” discusses selective aspects of the impact of nuclear weapons on the U. S. alliance system, analyzes the influence of nuclear weapons on Soviet conflict strategy, and describes the United States’ need for a more clear and comprehensive strategic doctrine.
Among the criticisms that have been leveled in the book are its efforts to devise a set of rules for the conduct of limiting atomic war. Many seasoned soldiers and diplomats, among them, Sr. John Slessor, have expressed grave doubts about the drawing up of “any sort of Queensberry rules for limiting war in general.” Others contend that the great stress which the book places on the concept of limited atomic war as a method of countering Communist military aggression is unwarranted because the Communists will present their future aggressions so ambiguously as to make even limited atomic reprisals politically and psychologically unacceptable. Since criticisms have centered on this issue it might be well to point out that the current superiority and diversity of the American nuclear stockpile, which may now make limited atomic war logistically advantageous to the West, will lose much of its significance a few years hence.
These criticisms should not detract from the considerable contribution the book has already made to Western and strategic and diplomatic thinking. No one else has solved to universal satisfaction the dilemmas with which Dr. Kissinger has wrestled. What Dr. Kissinger has done so well has been to demonstrate convincingly that in the nuclear age we must have a policy and a concomitant strategy which permits us to maneuver toward limited objectives without the paralysis that
comes from the prospect of total nuclear war on the one hand, or from supine submission to Soviet nibbling tactics on the other. There are persuasive arguments both for or against Dr. Kissinger’s viewpoint that a doctrine of limited nuclear war will best support the kind of flexible diplomatic-military posture the emerging situation requires. While there is general agreement that we must be able to meet aggression by the most appropriate means, the means advocated are not universally accepted. In a strategically-related vein, Dr. Kissinger has established a Western requirement to defend the critical areas on the periphery of Eurasia from Communist forays with local military means rather than by exclusive reliance on a capacity to launch a global nuclear war. Interestingly enough, the authoritative Swiss Review of World Affairs, Jfeue J^iircher fitting, in the aftermath of the December, 1957 NATO summit meetings, also recognized the pressing need of Europeans to defend themselves. It asked for: “ . . . a massive effort to eliminate its (Europe’s) deplorable military inferiority on the tactical level. The Soviet Union having caught up with the West in strategic respects, the European and other countries have no choice but to remedy the backwardness of their tactical armed forces as fast as they can.”
The most significant issue which the book raises, and which it does not all together resolve, is whether nuclear weapons in the long run are more advantageous to the kind of revolutionary power represented by the Communist system or to the West. The book argues that “The powers that represent the status quo are ... at a profound psychological disadvantage vis-a-vis revolutionary power.” It also acknowledges that “the most substantial Communist contribution to the theory of war has been in the area of limited war . . . .” It recognizes that our willingness to confront the Communist world “resolves itself ultimately into questions of how much the free world will risk to back up the assessment of a situation that obviously calls for some counter,” but does not fully clarify how the limited employment of nuclear weapons could be such a counter. This is particularly true if confused threats are present in the so- called “grey area” stretching from Turkey to Hong Kong. The book recognizes that “the contest with the Soviet bloc would be likely to be protracted,” but only hints at the long range relation of nuclear developments to this drawn-out and many-sided struggle.
The concluding chapter, “The Need for Doctrine,” almost seems a step down from the high level of discussion preceding it, for it is concerned almost entirely with the difficulties which the three services have been having in developing an integrated military strategy; whereas the book itself repeatedly reveals the author’s appreciation of the fact that the doctrine we need must be formulated by the government as a whole so that our military strategy and posture can be both responsive to our national aspiration as well as to the dynamic political, psychological environment in which it must operate.
To sum up: this is an important basic and illuminating study. The general reader will find the book heavy going but altogether rewarding. It properly belongs on the must list of senior military men and government officials concerned with America’s security.
Operation Sea Lion
By Peter Fleming. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Illustrations and index. 309 pages. $5.00.
REVIEWED BY
(Rear Admiral Bern Anderson, USN {Ret-)
{Rear Admiral Anderson served on active duty jor thirty years and received a master’s degree from Harvard in 1951 and a doctorate in 1954.)
Operation Sea Lion was an invasion of England for which the Germans made plans and preparations in the summer of 1940. Originally set for August 15, it was postponed several times and finally abandoned in early 1942- Mr. Fleming, whose travel-adventure books were best sellers twenty years ago, presents a very readable and interesting account ot those tense days in 1940 when Britain’s fortunes were at their lowest ebb.
A feature of this volume is the author’s ability to catch the spirit and high morale of the British people, sparked by Winston Churchill and his inspiring speeches, Reeling under the shock of Dunkirk and the French collapse, they never lost their sense of humor or faith in ultimate victory, even as they fe' verishly prepared for the invasion which they fully expected would be launched.
Unfortunately, Mr. Fleming did not have access to British archives and the German material they contain. He used as source material available published records, correspondence, and interviews with the Germans who were involved in the planning operations. If it has not been for these research limitations, the role of Grossadmiral Raeder might have been portrayed in clearer fashion. Raeder was the one realist among the German leaders who consistently pointed out the dangers and difficulties to be overcome and consequently insisted that air supremacy over Britain was an absolute prerequisite before the operation could be executed. Cocksure Goering tried to secure this control in one week, obtaining not victory but instead for his Luftwaffe the first defeat inflicted on German arms in World War II.
This book not only is well written and good reading, it is good history.
BOOK BRIEFS The Sledge Patrol
By David Howarth. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. 233 pages, 17 illustrations. $4.50.
A little-known World War II campaign in which seven Danish and Norwegian hunters achieved considerable success in defending Greenland’s important weather stations from occupation by a German task force. The closing and mature philosophic observation, “it is proper for all true men of every nation to act together in opposition to evil and oppression, wherever and whenever they arise,” permeates much of this engrossing narrative.
Israeli Shipping and Foreign Trade
By Baruch Boxer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1957. 162 pages. 39 illustrations and 12 tables. $3.00.
“Israel’s virtually complete dependence on the sea as an avenue of supply as well as a channel for export flow is striking,” affirms the author. This valuable book succinctly discusses Israel’s export commodities and for
eign trade, her merchant marine and ports, and the services performed by foreign-flag vessels.
Mr. Boxer proves that the present export trade of Israel is directed primarily at the countries of northern and western Europe, recognizes the value of her merchant fleet in transpoiting immigrants and essential materials to her land, and predicts a bright future for the nation in maritime trade. The many illustrations and tables are most useful inclusions.
Best Foot Forward
By Colin Hodgkinson. New York: W. W.
Norton & Company, Inc., 1957. 269 pages,
15 illustrations. $3.95.
This extraordinary autobiography is of the extraordinarily courageous and determined British aviator, Colin Hodgkinson, who, despite losing both legs as the result of a flight training accident, nevertheless lived to gain his wings in the RAF, fly over one hundred combat missions, survive a crash landing in occupied France, be repatriated, and meet the post-war problems of readjustment to civilian life. This book should appeal to anyone interested in the heroic aspects of man as warrior and his triumph of spirit over flesh and bone.
Rocket
By Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert De La Ferte. New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. 190 pages, 22 illustrations, 2 Appendices. $6.00.
Sir Philip’s timely book first discusses the development and combat employment of Germany’s VI and V2 rockets and Allied counter-measures, then the probable political and military effects of nuclear rockets upon the nations that can produce and use them. The photographic selection is judicious and informative. “Rocket exploration of space throughout the years, may, in the end, lead to a transmigration of our population from a dying world to a new, comfortable and well- warmed planet,” is the futuristic last-page comment of the author.
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A Brief History of Courts-Martial Paper cover $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 72 pages.
Naval Essays of Service Interest Paper cover $1.25
Collection of 35 selected Proceedings articles for over 26-year period. 1942.
International Law for Naval Officers $2.00 ($1.60)
By Comdr. C. C. Soule, USN, and Lieut. Comdr. C. McCauley, USN. 245 pages. Revised
1928 by Lieut. Comdr. C. J. Bright, USN.
Matthew Fontaine Maury $3.00 ($1.80)
By Professor Charles L. Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy. 1927. 264 pages. Illustrated.
The Dardanelles Expedition $3.00 ($2.40)
By Captain W. D. Puleston, USN. 1927. 172 pages. Illustrated.
We Build A Navy *2.75 ($1.65)
By Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost, USN. A vivid and dramatic narrative of our early Navy. 1929. 517 pages. Illustrated.
Yankee Mining Squadron $1.50 ($1.20)
By Captain R. R. Belknap, USN. 1920. 110 pages. Illustrated.