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The Swordbearers
By Correlli Barnett. New York: Morrow, 1964. 392 pages. Illustrated. $7.50.
Evans of the Broke
By Reginald Pound. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. 323 pages. Illustrated. $6.75.
REVIEWED BY
Rear Admiral John D. Hayes,
U. S. Navy (Retired)
(Admiral Hayes has been engaged in researching and writing naval and military history since his retirement in 1954. He is a frequent contributor to the Proceedings.)
At the heart of World War I lay a monstrous irrationality that gives the War a historical fascination. This is the claim of the British author of the first of these books and he tells the story in terms of character studies of four major military figures, a technique used in his first book, The Desert Generals (1961). The men selected are Helmuth von Moltke, victim, like his country Germany, of the Schlieffen Plan; Erich Ludendorff, an intellectual snob who lacked the moral courage to do the hardest of military jobs, salvage a defeat; Henri Philippe Petain, a pitiful figure in another war but in this one the only major leader who gained a measure of control over events; and John Jellicoe, the sailor who could not win the War in an afternoon because he had a flawed cutlass, the Royal Navy.
It is the fourth of this book devoted to the sea war that will be significant to Naval Institute readers. World War I, despite its bloody stalemate on land, was basically a maritime war. It was finally lost by Germany at sea and won by the Allies only because resources, especially American manpower, could be brought from overseas. Britain in that war must not be judged on the performance of her raw armies, but on her professional, long-service Navy. In 1916 the sea was an open flank and the future course of the War turned on the British Grand Fleet. Jutland was its trial and at Jutland it failed.
Tactically Jutland was indecisive, but paradoxically this made it, like the Battle of Cape Henry which created the United States, strategically decisive. The continued existence of the German High Seas Fleet meant that Russia remained separated from her maritime allies, and this helped produce the causation that resulted in the triumph of Communism in Russia.
Jutland, however, was a spectacle that blinded historians, especially naval historians, to its real meanings. Mr. Barnett, no worshiper of sea power, devotes 50 of the 90 critical pages of his book to the tactics of the battle, now as meaningless as the tactics of Actium. He does recognize the importance of the Allied blockade and the submarine war, but he gives them only a few paragraphs.
More than 250 ships were involved at Jutland and records were kept in each of them of almost everything that happened- Some 10,000 messages were sent and 300 action reports submitted. Sufficient information was available to locate 65 per cent of the major shell hits. This plethora of naval data resulted in the battle’s tactics receiving attention far greater than deserved, and this stress preserved the myth of the battleline engagement long after the submarine and the airplane had changed the whole nature of naval warfare. Jutland’s indecisiveness should have revealed that technological advances had outrun the commander’s means of controlling his forces and that the tactical doctrine of steam navies had been improperly developed'
Commander Stephen King-Hall who, if the ubiquitous cruiser Southampton, had a front seat at this spectacle, sums it up in his Naval Life-. “We British made a mess of it. . . The failure was fundamentally due to the fact that in 1916, naval thought was dominated by material conditions. It is useless to build bigger and better ships unless someone thinks how to use them.”
At Jutland, German shiphandling and gun' nery made up for British numbers, nullified Jellicoe’s proper deployment, and corrected Schcer’s daring mistakes. The real cause of
fitish failure, however, lay deeper. Accord- 'ng to Mr. Barnett it was British society’s re- usal to use the talents of its middle class for lts °Wn growth. Instead it sent them off to rule the Indians.
Although Britain thought of her Navy in terms of the Nelson touch—the adventure- S°me initiative—it was in fact ruled by a Rifling, pointless discipline. Jellicoe himself a<a had no opportunity for staff training and ^ar study. The Grand Fleet was capable of , y textbook maneuvers. During the battle . e badly wounded German battle cruiser g . ye was recognized as enemy by several rihsh ships, but none opened fire because,
V the strict training of a lifetime, such a ecisi°n belonged to flag officers alone.
y ^ Jutland, as at Crecy in the Hundred War, the battle proved a social system . . decadent and uncreadve. Mr. Barnett teas the principal armed service of a coun-
V te its professional attitudes, its equipment, j Us officer corps is a reflection of the counI s whole society, especially of its dominat-
h 5 Sr°uP. He is ruthlessly “unBritish” when qC states that the Australian and Canadian °rPs> because of their more able and enteric ls'ng officers recruited from wider social ac grounds, were the best troops in the Brit>sh Army.
Jutland was more than an indecisive battle
and a defeat for British technology; it was a warning sign of 70 years of decline that was at last fully exposed in the sudden collapse of British power and industrial vigor after World War II.
“War,” writes author Barnett in his Preface, “is the great auditor of institutions.” He continues abrasively to remind his readers of such truths throughout his work and this makes The Swordbearers one of the outstanding military books of this decade.
Evans of the Broke was a captain during World War I and retired as an admiral just before the outbreak of World War II. He accepted a Labor peerage in 1945 to become Lord Mountevans. Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans and John Jellicoe came from modest backgrounds: Evans was the son of a legal civil servant; Jellicoe of a merchant captain. There the similarity ends, but a comparison of their naval characters is both fascinating and meaningful, and is the reason for this biography being reviewed with Mr. Barnett’s classic.
Evans climbed to the top of his profession by being unorthodox in a profession where orthodoxy can be confused with obedience. What he contributed to that profession other than his own character is hard to determine. His fame rests on being second in command of the ill-fated Scott Antarctic expedition in
1912 and for a destroyer night action in the Dover Straits during World War I. He was, however, a man of intrepid spirit, energy and captivating charm, an activist and adventurer, who fully enjoyed life. Oddly he was also an able writer as his many books prove.
However, his greatest asset was his gift for being able to establish intimacy with the masses. He was therefore all that a 20th century public relations man could ask for.
But to this reader, Evans did not ring true. A devoted, self-sacrificing officer in 1942 would not have turned down, as he did, one of the toughest jobs in the British Navy, commander at the port of Murmansk.
The Rise and Fall of the Space Age
By Edwin Diamond. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1964. 158 pages. $3.95.
REVIEWED BY
Commander Thomas T. Scambos,
U. S. Navy
(Commander Scambos is assigned to the Astronautics Division of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Development) and is the project officer for Navy experiments in the Gemini and Manned Orbiting Laboratory programs.)
Mr. Diamond, one of the most respected American science reporters and currently a senior editor of Newsweek, writes of the rise and falter (not jail) of the space age in a lively and absorbing fashion. He copiously documents the frenzied birth and the breathtaking game of space one-upmanship which have produced a variety of wasteful byproducts from the nation’s space program.
With Sputnik coming when the “missile gap” was a national worry (albeit unfounded, as the author well documents) and the Yuri Gagarin flight occurring almost simultaneously with the Bay of Pigs debacle, there was initially little chance to formulate reasoned objectives and sound plans for the U. S. space program. However, Mr. Diamond’s argument that the space program lacks a clear and realistic sense of purpose is woefully outdated as is shown by the recent Congressional hearings on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration budget. To provide some balance to his criticism, the author also should have noted that the space-gap hysteria since the first Sputnik was launched has given great impetus to the improvement of American educational and scientific facilities.
Mr. Diamond intriguingly speculates that all the frenzy to boom into space was really quite unnecessary. He postulates that in the late 1940s the Soviets stumbled into the space age by making a serious mistake in their ballistic missile planning: They sized their boosters for the large, first-generation nuclear warheads. By the early 1950s, when warheads had become much smaller, these expensive, cumbersome, and “soft” boosters were obsolete as I CBM stages. To salvage whatever use might remain, the Soviets decided to use these boosters to launch their satellites.
The author’s sharpest criticisms of the space program are no doubt well founded. They should not, however, endanger the program since they have as their target the froth and the trimmings, not the essentials. The show business of space, the chamber of commerce nonsense about economic panaceas, the saber-rattling with orbiting bombs and moon bases, and the congressional rush to a new and juicy pork-barrel all get ample treatment from the author’s scathing pen.
However, the program’s genuine achievements for some reason do not receive “equal time.” The remarkable successes of the Tiros weather satellites; the Echo, Relay, Telstar, and Syncom communications satellites; the wealth of new, fundamental scientific knowledge from our Explorer and Pioneer satellites and deep space probes; and the high reliability of our manned space program are all overlooked—to the book’s detriment.
In a chapter devoted to military uses of space, the author again chooses to probe, dissect, and analyze the seamier side. Taking the missile and space gaps in chronological
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order he leaves the impression that the six million dollars in canceled Department of defense programs went completely down the drain. The fact is that this has hardly ever een the case. The Navaho ramjet missile is an excellent case in point. Although a canceled program, it paid its way by providing “e basic engines for our liquid propellant ballistic missiles as well as the vital Polaris guidance system. The purist, of course, can frgue that theoretically we should have done u better and cheaper, but for Mr. Diamond to suggest that the ideal is possible is a sign °f almost unbelievable naivete.
Being a first-class reporter, the author nows a story when he sees one, and he '''fites it in a lively and absorbing fashion, t certainly is not the first time that the a abilities, the nonsense, and the temptations o which human enterprise is always subject as obtained mileage from a good newsman.
Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs
Text by Norman J. G. Pounds. Maps by Robert C. Kingsbury. New York:
Praeger, 1964. 117 pages. $4.00 Reviewed by
Lieutenant Commander T. W. Schaaf,
Li. S. Navy
(Lieutenant Commander Schaaf is currently a student at ‘he Naval War College.)
> This pocket-size book is the fourth in a S' t les of world-affairs atlases and brings under 'Jne c°ver a complete summation of a par*. ar geographical area. (The others deal Vvi|h Africa, Europe, and the world.)
. iowever, the book is not limited to phys- 1Cai geography, but proceeds instead, from 'ef features through cultural, economic, ar> political factors of the region. The author to CS’ 'Politics is related increasingly close ^ geography. Events happen somewhere: ey are related to the environments amid i ']C * '•bey occur and can not be properly understood apart from it.”
.j, bis atlas defines the Middle East as jrUrkey, Iran, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, acl> Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. M'h ^rSt sect*on °f the book deals with the 1 ole East as a geographical region and the c°nd part with the nations of the Middle
East. Each page of text has a detailed map adjacent to it. Individual maps and comprehensive descriptions are also given to special areas such as the Nile and the Suez Canal.
With this small book available to him, the crewman or captain of a Sixth Fleet ship can quickly refer to a map and treatise on Cyprus, or find the reason for the French influence in Lebanon, or unravel a brief history of the Turkish Straits.
This book combines, in concise prose and clearly delineated maps, information about the middle eastern region which is normally available only in pieces (country by country) or divided among at least four types of books (history, geography, economics, and sociology). The purchase of An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs could be the best investment of the year for a busy Sixth Fleet sailor.
Aboard the USS Monitor: 13Hi2
The letters of Paymaster William F. Keeler edited by Professor Robert W. Daly, U. S. Naval Academy. List Price $6.50. Member's Price $4.88. A U. S. Naval Institute Publication
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"Amidst the plethora of Civil War memorials now hitting print, this publication stands out like a first-order lighthouse on a clear and sparkling night."
—American Neptune
The Naval Officer’s Guide
By Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired), with Rear Admiral William P. Mack, U. S. Navy. Sixth Edition. Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1964. 650 pages. Illustrated. $6.75. Member’s price $5.40.
REVIEWED BY
Captain Harvey O. Webster, U. S. Navy
(iCaptain Webster is commanding officer of the USS Hyades (AF-28). He has also commanded a minesweeper and three destroyer-type ships.)
“Tell the captain that I don’t understand all I know about this windlass motor,” was the exasperated reply from the destroyer’s chief boatswain’s mate on the fo’c’sle when he was queried about a delay in heaving up the anchor.
This reply also summarizes this reviewer’s reaction after a first reading of this Sixth Edition of The Naval Officer's Guide. After 22 years in the Navy, I was surprised that there was so much about the service that “I didn’t understand all I know about,” so many bits and pieces of useful information in the book were either unknown or only vaguely familiar.
This subjective reaction was sufficient to highly recommend the 1964 edition of The Naval Officer's Guide to me. There is information here, and in authentic detail, for all naval officers from “JO” to “CO,” ranging in scope from rigging a sword to tying up a destroyer. In addition, this wealth of information is presented in a surprisingly readable fashion.
This book was conceived during World War II to serve as a guide to newly commissioned officers who often had a minimum of formal preparation for a naval career. This basic, but comprehensive approach is one of the book’s greatest assets.
For today’s newly commissioned naval officers, the chapters “First Station,” “Military Duties of the Naval Officer,” and “Traditions and Customs of the Naval Service” should be thoroughly studied and well understood before reporting for duty. For the middle grade officer, the chapters “Education for Command,” “Oral and Written Communication,” and “Leading the American Bluejacket” are of continuing reference value. This last chapter is one of the best over-all views of the leadership problem that this reviewer has encountered.
Although primarily oriented to the needs of the junior line officer, perhaps the greatest value of The Naval Officer's Guide lies in its assistance to officers at the command and executive levels. It affords a ready-at-hand frame of reference against which to establish or review one’s over-all philosophy of command. Within the covers, when carefully separated out, is a catalogue of almost all facets of the problems of leadership and morale which are of such critical concern to those in command. It is not necessary to buy the “school solutions” suggested by the authors, but it is vital that the captain, at all times, appreciate the complex and interrelated personal needs of the wardroom and fo’s’cle. These must be constantly ministered to despite the incessant press of seagoing operations. For the forlorn figure on the starboard wing of the bridge who is wrestling with the “prestige, privilege, and the burden oi command,” this volume will provide a checkoff list from which to crystallize the communication of a command philosophy. This the commanding officer must coherently resolve if he is to succeed in the greatest challenge of his naval career. Not only must his command philosophy be carefully thought °nt and uniformly applied, but it must be effectively communicated to the ship’s comPany to achieve its full effect.
In view of the staggering task the authors have set out to accomplish, it is inevitable that fftis volume should have certain shortcomings. ‘’°me of the deficiencies are inherent in any attempt to treat the almost universal scope °f concern confronting the naval officer in the nuclear era. Some of the subjects chosen uy the authors, such as “Our Navy and the challenge to Our Free World,” simply do not end themselves to any meaningful, single- uapter presentation. Other subject areas, sUch as the discussion of organization for na- Ponal security and the Department of De- ense, not only defy brief coverage but change j°u rapidly to be kept up-to-date in a book rmat. For example, the mere mechanics in- vulved in maintaining organizational details 0 the Office of the Secretary of Defense in a jurrent status are prohibitive in any pub- cation which appears less frequently than j10 a monthly basis. Although the authors ave been scrupulous in their corrections up 0 fhe time this edition was set into type, several major changes have already taken P ace since then. A new office of Assistant ' ecretary of Defense for Management has been located, and the Office of Civil Defense has ,C(;n moved from the Assistant Secretary of ^ dense level into the Department of the my. This reviewer does not feel that the °ve mentioned sections would be greatly trUssed if they were eliminated altogether !'nce current information is readily available .’n other, more complete sources.
O/s C only maJor criticism of The Naval JPcer s Guide is perhaps merely reflective of condition which has persisted in the Navy l|nce the end of World War II. There has eer[1] an intense, almost frantic preoccupa- oj.11 with administrative detail at the expense ° the development and communication of a erent over-all sense of professionalism. At es this emphasis on paperwork has r Counted to a deliberate disregard of the t^a ltles °f military life in the nuclear age with le absolute necessity for closer control and
more precise, unified direction over all units of the armed forces by the executive branch. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in this book’s treatment of the relationship between the Navy and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. There is a strong but misleading implication that the Chief of Naval Operations still commands the Navy’s operating forces when, in fact, the Chief of Naval Operations, as such, is no longer even a link in the chain of operational command. This chain runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense though the Joint Chiefs of Staff direct to the commander of the specified or unified command concerned.
The military departments under the present Department of Defense organization have three major responsibilities:
• Recruiting and training of personnel.
• Purchase of material and equipment that is not common with other services.
• Research and development of weapon systems with the help and guidance of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.
This apparent inability or unwillingness of the Navy’s leadership since World War II to cope with the problem of increasing unification of the armed forces has adversely affected the development of a viable professionalism in the naval officer corps. This parochial reaction has placed our middle and junior grade officers at a distinct disadvantage visa-vis their contemporaries in the other two military departments.
At the heart of the matter is a firm faith in and an incisive understanding of our service and how we as career officers relate to the future of the Navy and the nation. In the light of apparently sincere disarmament efforts, where are we headed as a service? What will be the role of the Navy in the 1970s? How much will the impact of joint professionalism affect our career planning?
Perhaps, in view of its otherwise commendable coverage, it is too much to hope that this volume might address itself a little more to answering some of these vital questions. Then again, perhaps no one in the Navy really knows what these answers are.
Summary: An excellent, informative work which should be on every line officer’s bookshelf or, better yet, in his sea bag.
Professional Reading
By Robert M. Langdon
• The U. S. Navy’s most distinguished living historian, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired), has produced a partial autobiography containing a liberal selection of his own writings in Vistas of History (Knopf, $4.00). This brief book, only 181 pages, contains much of value to students of history. Fans of both Morison and the U. S. Navy will especially enjoy the author’s account of how he wrote his 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Also presented is one of the finest examples of Morison’s naval writings: “The Battle off Samar” taken from his The Two-Ocean War (1963). This new volume is Morison at his best whether he is recounting his own intellectual adventures, expounding on the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, or chasing Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita back up San Bernardino Strait in October 1944.
• A little-known or oft-forgotten side of the U. S. Coast Guard’s 20th century operations is related in some detail by Malcolm F. Willoughby in his Rum War at Sea (Government Printing Office, $2.00). This is a brief treatment of the Coast Guard’s dramatic and hazardous attempt to reinforce one major aspect of national prohibition from 1920 to 1934. A number of interesting photographs are included.
• The U. S. Naval Academy Museum has expanded its activities by inaugurating the U. S. Naval Academy Historical Publications Series which will present publications based on historical materials and research associated with the Museum’s collections. The impressive opener for this series is The IX" Dahlgren Broadside Gun (paper, 25 ji) by Museum Curator Joseph C. Bruzek. It contains a brief sketch of Admiral Dahlgren, a technical description of the gun and its ordnance, and several superb sketches and drawings. This publication is available from the Director, U. S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland. •
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Naval Review 1965 ..................................................................... $12.50 ($10.00)
The third annual publication consisting of 12 essays by different writers who examine the problems and developments in U.S. and other naval services. 1964. 407 pages. 3 appendixes. Illustrated. Maps.
Welcome Aboard.......................................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
lly Florence Ridgely Johnson. An informal guide and handbook for Navy wives on U.S. Navy customs, traditions, social usages, and business and legal affairs. 6th Ed., 1964. 264 pages.
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Aboard the USS Monitor: 1862 .......................................................................................... $6.50 ($4.88)
The letters of Acting Paymaster \V. F. Keeler, USN, to bis wife, Anna.
Edited by Professor Robert W. Daly, U. S. Naval Academy, 1964. 278 pages. Illustrated.
Almanac of Naval Facts....................................................................................................... $3.50 ($2.63)
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Ainerika Samoa: A History of American Samoa
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[1] Brassey's Annual: The Armed Forces Tear-book 1964 (Frederick A. Praeger, $15.50), in its seventy-fifth year of publication, presents the following essays: (1) Defence 1964— 65, (2) Fifty Years of Conflict—1914-1964, (3) Threat to Sea Communications as a Method of Limited War, (4) Defence Trends in Britain, (5) Research and Opinion, (6) This Business of Public Relations, (7) The Military Implications of the Test-Ban Treaty, (8) Parliamentary Control of Military Expenditure, (9) The Multilateral Force Project, (10) The Communist Threat to South and South-East Asia, (11) The Yemen, (12) Developments in Maritime Forces 1964-65, (13) Britain’s Merchant Navy, (14) New Developments in Aircraft and Missiles, (15) Bases or Fighting Forces? (16) The U. S. M. C.—America’s Force in Readiness, (17) The Assault Ship—H.M.S. Fearless, (18) The Logistic Ship Sir Lancelot, (19) Roll-On, Roll-Off—The Commercial Use of L.S.T., (20) Implications of Strategic Mobility, (21) Military Works Services. The New Role of The Ministry of Public Building and Works, (22) A Review of The Military Situation in Europe, (23) The Direction of Anti-Guerilla Operations, (24) Israel and the Arab States, (25) The Future of the British Aircraft Industry, (26) Aircraft in World Pest Control and Fertilisation, (27) Aid to Developing Countries in 1964, (28) Some Problems of Soviet Strategy, (29) Manning A Modern Fleet, (30) Adventure Training in the Royal Air Force, (31) The U. S. Manned Orbiting Laboratory, (32) The Royal Air Force and The Arctic, (33) Some Military Books of the Year. Also included is the official “Statement on Defence, 1964.”