Preface To Naval Strategy In Outer Space

By Cdr. Spencer M. Beresford, USNR
March 1961
“ . . . the unresting progress of mankind causes continual change in the weapons; and with that must come a continual change in the manner of fighting.” Alfred T ...

Sea Power And American Survival

By Stuart B. Barber
March 1961
The author of the following article examines the various aspects of sea power as a means of survival in the face of the mounting Communist threat to the United States ...

Nao—Navy's Newest Career Opportunity

By Cdr. H. C. Hogan, USN
March 1961
Naval aviation now offers a career opportunity to non-pilot officers in its NAO, or Naval Aviation Officer, program. No longer must an officer serving in the aeronautical branch of the ...

Crash Programs And The Logistic Snowball*

By R. Adm. Henry E. Eccles, USN (Ret.)
March 1961
During the defense debates of 1960 and in nearly all the postwar years, there have been frequent calls for “crash programs” to accomplish one or more of the various projects ...

Silent Witness

By Lt. Cdr. Edward F. Oliver, USCG
March 1961
When the fishing vessel Cape Douglas was hoisted from her grave, 106 fathoms beneath the surface, into the bright sunlight, a story of avarice, crime, and man’s eternal struggle against ...

The Role Of Military Assistance

By Col. William R. Kintner, USA
March 1961
The present conflict reflects the relative power and geographical positions of the two chief protagonists, the United States and the Soviet Union. Until recently, the United States and its Western ...

The Weapon That Came Too Late

By Lt. Cdr. A. N. Glennon, USN
March 1961
In 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies a submarine fleet so advanced that no practical defense against it existed at the time. None of these radically new boats had seen ...

Latin American Naval Lessons

By Commander Alberto Jimenez, Peruvian Navy
March 1961
The Huascar, an iron-clad, single-turret ram built in England in 1865 for the Peruvian government, took part in nearly every significant Latin American naval campaign in the last quarter ...

Overdue—Presumed Lost

By Lt. Cdr. Edward F. Oliver, USCG
March 1961
Since man first went down to the sea in ships, the fate most dreaded by every seaman has been that he and his ship might vanish forever into the unknown ...

Comment and Discussion

March 1961
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Book Reviews and Book List

March 1961
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USS King (DLG-10)

By Commander M. E. Bustard, U. S. Navy*
March 1961
USS King (DLG-10), the first ship to be named to perpetuate the name of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, is one of ten of the Coontz-class, all of which ...

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