Communist China And The Arab-African Area

By Lieutenant (j.g.) I. William Zartman, USNR
September 1960
A long-term danger is building up in the continent of Africa. Its name, Communism, is well known, but its appeals, its approach, and its agent are new, and its full ...

The Naval Academy of Today and Its Mission

By Captain J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., USN
September 1960
Much sound and fury on the subject of education has recently been raised in many U. S. periodicals. Nearly every such article dwells entirely on the academic aspects of education ...

The U.S. Navy's Hurricane Hunters

By Lieutenant Commander Wycliffe D. Toole, Jr., USN
September 1960
One of the most unusual missions presently assigned to a U. S. Navy unit is that being carried out by Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four, otherwise known as the Navy’s ...

Political Gaming

By Dr. Lincoln P. Bloomfield
September 1960
By contrast with the traditional war game, what has come to be known as the political exercise has had a relatively short life. Indeed, it is so new that eyebrows ...

The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Navy

By Captain Carl O. Holmquist, USN and Russell S. Greenbaum
September 1960
In February of this year, the nuclear submarine Sargo became the third U. S. Navy submarine to cruise under the polar ice cap. Furthermore, Sargo was the first submarine to ...

Discrimination in Selections: Fact or Fancy?

By Captain John H. Hitchcock, USN
September 1960
This article is prompted by the ever increasing letters to editors appearing in service magazines relating to the selection opportunity for officers who have entered the Navy’s ranks from sources ...

Balanced Sea Power And Cold War

By Captain Cassius D. Rhymes, Jr., USN
September 1960
Thirty years ago we were midway between two world wars and in the process of forgetting some lessons of the first one. We had learned that sea power is the ...

Command Primer

By Major E. J. Markham, Jr., USMC
September 1960
Command is the ultimate honor the Corps can bestow. It is a privilege, not a right. It is complete and absolute—an end in itself. It brings with it a degree ...

Artic Oceanography By Submarines

By E. C. LaFond
September 1960
The Arctic regions have been under investigation for the past 400 years, first by sailing ships, steamships, and icebreakers, and more recently by submarines. The obvious questions are: Why do ...

Bellingshausen Sea Operation (Pictorial)

By Captain Edwin A. McDonald, USN
September 1960
“It is my opinion that no surface ship, no matter how strong, could have punched through it [pack ice] to a point south of Latitude 71° between the Antarctic archipelago ...

Comment and Discussion

September 1960
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Book Reviews

September 1960
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Professional Notes

September 1960
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The Federal Navy's Missing Raft

By Sydney Jackman
September 1960
In 1868, according to local tradition in Bermuda, a group of men from St. David’s Island were standing on Mount Hill scanning the sea for ships, as was the custom ...

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