The First Watch

By Captain Robert W. McNitt, USN
January 1959
Generations of junior officers have known that there is only one fate worse than being in the duty section on New Year's Eve, and that is drawing the mid watch—the ...

The Middle East

By Robert Strausz-Hupé
January 1959
The Middle East has been in recorded history longer than any other region of this earth. During the last few hundred years, the Middle East has been a region of ...

Man-made Air—The State Of The Art

By Lieutenant J. T. Rigsbee, USN
January 1959
During launching ceremonies for the USS Skipjack (SSN-585), Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) and the USS Skate (SSN-578) had set new ...

McLintock's Calculated Risk

By William McFee
January 1959
On the 17th of June, in the year 1900, the British tramp steamer Titania, 5,000 tons deadweight, of London, with a crew of twenty-two, left Cape Town, South Africa, for ...

What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us

By Commander James F. Calvert, USN
January 1959
I was sitting at the reactor control panel aware that a fairly delicate power plant maneuver was in progress but also comfortably confident I had the situation in hand. There ...

Oil and the New Japan

By Joseph Z. Reday
January 1959
Whatever its everlasting folly and whatever the whole set of reasons for Japan’s going to war with the West, certainly one large prize in the eyes of the Japanese military ...

Territorial Claims In The Antarctic

By Lieutenant Commander Clarence O. Fiske, USN, and Mrs. Clarence O. Fiske
January 1959
In June, 1958, the State Department announced that all eleven nations invited by the President, have agreed to take part in a conference to “neutralize” the Antarctic. As the U ...

Comment and Discussion

January 1959
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Book Reviews

January 1959
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Professional Notes

Edited by Captain Alan M. Nibbs, USN
January 1959
The New Look in Chief Petty Officers —Master and Senior By Joseph R. Heinzel In August of 1958 the Navy held its first examination for advancement to Master and Senior ...

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