Politico-Military Policy In Today's Navy

By Captain Elward F. Baldridge, USN
March 1959
When on the night of December 26, 1957, the Commander 7th Fleet, Vice Admiral Wallace Beakley, issued wireless orders from his flagship Rochester, lying alongside the quay at the Yokosuka ...

The Art of Getting Off The Front Page

By Lieutenant Commander Edmund L. Castillo, USN.
March 1959
A plane is down in the East China Sea, a P2V-7 carrying nine men from nine different cities in nine different states. The message is heard from Iwakuni and Yokosuka ...

Wargaming The Cold War

By Maurice T. Price
March 1959
“I think we would win a hot war, and I do not know if we will win this cold war or not; it depends on whether we have an adequate ...

The Officers of the Royal Navy

By Lieutenant Commander J. Stewart, RN
March 1959
The postwar years have seen many changes in all fighting services as they have adapted themselves to meet the problems of this highly technical age. In the Royal Navy one ...

Iron Brains and Iron Ships

By Commander Charles P. Rozier, USN
March 1959
In 1269 A.D. an engineer in the French army laying siege to the Italian city of Lucera wrote a long letter to his friend Sigerus. Several copies of the letter—the ...

Morale—An Objective Of Leadership

By Captain E. M. Luby, USN
March 1959
Leadership is one of the oldest and most distinctive arts of the military profession. It is also one of the most difficult to master. Even in the most simple circumstances ...

Triumph at Taranto

By A. Cecil Hampshire
March 1959
On the night of November 11, 1940, a score of obsolescent planes from a British aircraft carrier steaming at sea over 170 miles away inflicted more damage on the Italian ...

The F.A.A. and The Navy

By Commander W. E. Muller, USN
March 1959
The President of the United States of America, in addressing Congress, stated, “Recent mid-air collisions of aircraft, occasioning tragic losses of human life, have emphasized the need for a system ...

Comment and Discussion

March 1959
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Book Reviews

March 1959
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Professional Notes

March 1959
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