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Flat hats and ditty boxes are gone now, along with smoking lamps, singlesticks and seaplanes, but that seagoing companion to ten million sailors, The Bluejacket's Manual, is still going strong. The BJM went to sea before oil burners and aircraft joined the Navy; it went around the world with the Great White Fleet and helped train navymen in two world wars. Now it’s ready to sail with the nuclear, electronic, computerized Navy of the seventies.
Today, 71 years after Lieutenant Ridley McLean wrote the first edition of a handbook for petty officers, the 19th edition of that same book is off the press. BJM will still tell a sailor how to tie a bowline, but keeping time with the increasing technical complexity of the Navy, it also tells him how SINS and TACAN work, what happens in UNREP, and where to find out the details
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This edition of the BJM, with a fresh input of nuts-and-bolts information from CPOs in the fleet, takes a sailor through his logical career pattern, beginning with basics for recruits; shipboard information; specialized duties; and information of a general nature—advancements, commissions, and retirement. In 28 chapters and 617 pages The Bluejacket's Manual packs a load of information about the Navy, and even offers a reading list for those who want
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Flat hats and ditty boxes are gone now, along with smoking lamps, singlesticks and seaplanes, but that seagoing companion to ten million sailors, The Bluejacket's Manual, is still going strong. The BJM went to sea before oil burners and aircraft joined the Navy; it went around the world with the Great White Fleet and helped train navymen in two world wars. Now it's ready to sail with the nuclear, electronic, computerized Navy of the seventies.
Today, 71 years after Lieutenant Ridley McLean wrote the first edition of a handbook for petty officers, the 19th edition of that same book is off the press. BJM will still tell a sailor how to tie a bowline, but keeping time with the increasing technical complexity of the Navy, it also tells him how SINS and TACAN work, what happens in UNREP, and where to find out the details
of the 3M System.
This edition of the BJM, with a fresh input of nuts-and-bolts information from CPOs in the fleet, takes a sailor through his logical career pattern, beginning with basics for recruits; shipboard information; specialized duties; and information of a general nature—advancements, commissions, and retirement. In 28 chapters and 617 pages The Bluejacket’s Manual packs a load of information about the Navy, and even offers a reading list for those who want
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U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, July 1973
SEA AND AIR: The Marine Environment, 2nd edition
by Jerome Williams,
Lt. Cdr. John Higginson, USN, & Lt. Cdr. John Kohrbough, USN
A completely revised edition of the only elementary text using an integrated approach to atmospheric and hydrospheric science.
' Chapters are devoted to marine geology, water properties, air properties, solar energy, oceanic and atmospheric temperature stiucture, fluid behavior, light and sound transmission, winds and currents, ice, marine biology, condensation and precipitation, weather systems, synoptic meteorology, waves and tides, and pollution.
1973. 341 pages. Illustrated.
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Oceanographic
Instrumentation
by Jerome Williams
The third in the United States Naval Institute Series in Oceanography, OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION, is intended to serve as a bridge between the disciplines of oceanography, and electronics. Its purpose is to acquaint marine scientists with some of the problems faced by the instrument designers, and to motivate electronics engineers to learn more about the marine environment.
Although individual components are discussed, the emphasis is on systems. The entire chain, from the sensor to the final data analysis, is examined as a whole. Primary emphasis is given to instrumentation concerned with the physical and geological processes of the marine environment—those instruments capable of producing quantitative information.
1973. 414 pages. Illustrated.
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especially true in a small boat.
Sailing folks tend to have fewer accidents than stinkpotters, maybe because sailing requires a higher level of skill and use of the elements, just to get from here to there. Racing sailors have the fewest accidents of all. The dependence of sailors on their gear may make them more forehanded. Motors tend to create a cult of invincibility, of defiance of elements and events. Unfortunately, this works just well enough to make for an unrelenting boldness. Operator error still stands out as the major cause of boating accidents. Even a well-found boat may not be able to save a reckless or otherwise inept operator.
Watch for the tips and rules of thumb which the author has carefully placed throughout the text. They are not all there, but there are enough to give the reader a pretty fair start on developing judgment. Good seamanship makes good sense, and Dick Henderson gives reasons, e.g., "Don’t use compression sleeves on wire rope that has a hollow or crushable fiber core.” This would seem more meaningful than a vague caution about Nicro fittings on 6 x 37 wire.
Even with a well found vessel and a good crew, there are at least three major concerns offshore—fire, seasickness, and being run down. FRP really burns, as do wood and paint. It is better to prevent the fire, and that is where the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Code 302 can help. This sets the standards for small-boat wiring. There is more, and Sea Sense provides cither direct information or enough of a clue to put you on the track. This is a practical and useful book, not a theoretical exercise While more could be said, the subject is so vast as to be boundless. Dick Henderson has given us the best of most of it in his book.
There is one aspect of the book which will be misleading. The author must have prepared his text before passage of the "Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-75, 10 August 1971)' There arc now Federal performance- oriented standards, product recall pr°‘ visions, required capacity plates and hull numbers, and voyage termination authority, to name a few of the additions to the boat safety regulations since Sea Sense was published.
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This reviewer highly recommends this readable book, Sea Seme by Richard Henderson, to anyone who goes to sea in small vessels and intends to survive.
The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam. New York: Random House, 1972, 665 pp. $10.00
Reviewed by Lieutenant Bernard D.
Cole, U. S. Navy
(Lieutenant Cole received his B.A. degree in history in 196} from the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Regular NROTC program. He received his M.P.A. degree in foreign affairs from the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the University of Washington in 1972. He has served in the amphibious forces, in destroyers, and as a naval gunfire liaison officer in Vietnam with the Third Marine Division.
Be is currently weapons officer onboard the USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7) in the Pacific Fleet.)
David Halberstam has spent many years reporting the Vietnam War, mostly for The New York Times. His title is ironic, reflecting a belief that it was • . . an uncommon group of bright, fct, analytical, self-assured men . . .” who were largely responsible for U. S. entry into open-ended conflict in Southeast Asia. This book is not history in 'he classical sense, but is a valuable series of character portraits of some of the men who made the foreign policy decisions of the 1960s. Halberstam uses basic 'eference works when discussing America’s post-World War II Asian policy. In 'he heart of the book, however, he relies almost entirely on conversations with his subjects and their contemporaries, both in and out of government.
These sources arc not cited nor are 'he circumstances described under which the information was gathered. Hence, the reader must take a great deal 0n faith. The author, however, has constructed a compelling, if sometimes patchy scenario. Halberstam’s commentary is one of serious and widespread deception within the military and civilian governmental hierarchy, deception both of self and of its con- st'tuency—the American people.
To a degree, of course, no American administration is completely honest and °pen. Franklin Roosevelt’s escalation of hi- S. naval participation in the Atlantic
battles of 1940 and 1941 comes immediately to mind. But this was part of a carefully considered policy, with definite political and military goals in sight. What seems especially damning to Halberstam is the lack of careful planning and goal-definition by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He feels that they adopted policies such as intensive bombing "out of desperation” for more constructive options. The author further believes that these administrations were significantly and adversely influenced by the McCarthyite experience—the fear of "losing” Vietnam, as Truman had "lost” China—and by an operative belief in the domino theory and the existence of monolithic world Communism well after its effective demise.
The American military absorbs a good deal of Mr. Halberstam’s time and criticism. He often seems to mistake ineptness for calculation, however, and is too extreme in failing to credit military leaders of the period with a sense of patriotism or selflessness other than to self or Service.
The author certainly sees no lack of military errors in both evaluating and operating in Vietnam. He correctly views the basic fallacy as being the attempt to apply military solutions to political problems. To justify intensive bombing of an agrarian North Vietnam, comparisons were drawn with the industrialized Germany of the early 1940s. On the ground, comparisons were made not with the French experiences in Indochina, but with Korea and with World War II. Generals ", . . trained to fight a . . . war on the plains of Germany . . .” could not resist launching division-sized operations in the jungles of South Vietnam. Politically-motivated guerrilla warfare and jungle warfare- very different concepts—were considered to be the same. French errors were repeated almost by rote.
Former President Lyndon Johnson is the villain of the piece. John F. Kennedy is not spared; for one thing, Johnson’s advisors were mostly Kennedy appointees. But if JFK got us into Vietnam, LBJ was almost irrational (in the author’s view) in keeping us there. Halberstam describes President Johnson as a secretive, master politician; a man of monumental ego and yet insecure. He was
distrustful and overwhelming with advisors and hence, eventually was surrounded by sycophants. Some of the book’s more completely drawn characters are Rostow the superhawk, Rusk the Cold War institutionalist, and McNamara the statistic-controlled corporate man fighting (and conquering) humanist impulses.
It is difficult to pin Halberstam down on many of his contentions, since sources are not cited. One general criticism is of the superior tone adopted by the author on numerous occasions. The sarcastic and accusatory use of the term "intellectual” is particularly prevalent. Perhaps a definition of the word is called for—for the benefit of both the reader and Mr. Halberstam.
The
American Steel Navy
A photographic History of the U. S. Navy from the Introduction of the Steel Hull in 1883 to the Cruise of the Great While Fleet,
1907-1909
by John D. Alden, Commander, U. S. Navy (Retired)
In this large-format picture history, the lively, lucid text and 300-plus illustrations cover all major U. S. warship types of the era, technical developments, life in the Navy, and historical events.
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This book is far from definitive, and comes under the "what if” school of history. That is, what if Adlai Stevenson had been Secretary of State; what if Robert McNamara had followed instinct rather than computer readouts; and, of course, what if John Kennedy had not been assassinated? Such speculation is interesting, but seldom instructive.
Professional Reading
Compiled by Robert A. Lambert, Associate Editor
Anatomy of an Undeclared War
Patricia A. Krause (ed.), New York:
International Universities Press, 1972. 277 pp. Ulus. $8.95.
The Pentagon Papers are discussed in a conference made up of 17 Congressmen and others closely identified with the Vietnam War. This is an edited transcript of the proceedings with additional supplementary material, mostly newspaper comment concerning the Papers, and a foreword by retired Senator Ernest Gruening.
Anschluss
Dieter Wagner and Gerhard Tomkowitz. New York: St. Martin’s, 1971. 255 pp. Illus. $7.95.
A day-by-day, almost an hour-by-hour, chronology of the week in March 1938, that Hitler absorbed Austria into the Third Reich. Originally published in Germany in 1968 as Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fiihrer.
An Army for Empire
Graham A. Cosmas. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1971. 334 pp. Ulus. $11.50.
This is an administrative history of the U. S. Army’s build up for the Spanish-American War; it ignores naval and diplomatic developments except as they affected the conditions under which the War Department did its work. The conduct of campaigns and field situations are treated as the results of command and policy decisions.
The Blitzkrieg Era and the German General Staff, 1865-1941
Larry H. Addington. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1971. 285 pp. Ulus. $10.00.
The blitzkrieg doctrine is seen as evolving from the 19th century Prussian doctrine of encirclement and annihilation modified to take advantage of airplanes and tanks but still fatally tied to railroads and horse-drawn logistics. The Prussian victories of the 1860s
and 1870s occurred because the wars were over before the logistics could collapse; the Schlieffen Plan, a master plan which Germany used to begin World War I, was never logistically realistic, and the plans during World War II were based on a semimodern army which still relied heavily on the horse to bring supplies to the tank.
The Consent of the Governed and Other Deceits
Arthur Krock. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1971. 309 pp. $8.95.
The four-time Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and former Washington bureau chief for The New York Times provides an anecdotal analysis of the American government and the professional politicians who occasionally serve the taxpayers who pay them.
Daily Life in Revolutionary China
Maria Antonietta Macciocchi. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972. 506 pp. $15.00.
An enthusiastic, uncritical description. It is difficult to decide whether the author is describing reality or what she wishes to be reality.
The Dawn of Empire
R. M. Errington. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1972. 318 pp. Ulus. $8.75.
A rather straightforward history which sees Rome’s development as an empire as being reluctant, almost absent-minded, the real intent being merely protection of its borders.
A Decade of Progress: The United States Army Medical Department, 1959-1969
Rose C. Engleman (ed.). Washington, D.C.:
U. S. Government Printing Office, 1971. 214 pp. Ulus. $2.25.
The nature and scope of the Army’s medical service during a major portion of the Vietnam War is documented.
Faces of Nationalism
Boyd C. Shafer. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 535 pp. $12.95.
A textbook survey of the history of nationalism from the 13th century to the present-
Ferrocement Boat Construction
Chris Cairncross. Camden, Me.: International Marine, 1972. 192 pp. Ulus. $9.95.
Planning and techniques necessary for constructing a durable boat from this material are described.
Force and Diplomacy
Raymond G. O’Connor. Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1972. 167 pp. $10.00
Twelve essays, all previously published by the author as journal articles or chapters in books, have been brought together as a study of the interdependence of force anti diplomacy in the 20th century. In the course of these essays, the traditional view of the United States as a peace-loving nation >s questioned, as is the use of economic sanctions as a deterrent to aggressive nations, and finds that victory in modern warfare is improbable. One of the chapters review* American naval policy and the concept °1 seapower, and concludes that seapower lS more important now than at any previous time in history.
Government Anarchy and the POGONOGO Alternative
Theodore Becker. New York: Stein and Day, 1972. 250 pp. $6.95.
As lawlessness on the part of public official* pervades every level of government leavin? the ordinary citizen as its helpless victim, only effective relief is an antigovernmo11’ such as antibodies to fight disease. The anti- government would watch and counter thc moves of government, the two would neutralize one another, leaving the public to $° about its business without unnecessary ■*’ strictions and bureaucratic red tape.
Professional Reading 103
The Grey Goose Wing
E. G. Heath. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1972. 343 pp. Illus.
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The use of the bow and arrow, one of man’s oldest inventions, is traced in its historical development in every corner of the world in all its variant forms, including the crossbow, in this most interesting and thoroughly illustrated reference.
How the Government Breaks the Law
Jethro K. Lieberman. New York: Stein and Day, 1972. 309 pp. $10.00.
The author, who is a lawyer, documents how bureaucracies at all levels of government in the United States illegally contrive to protect themselves from blame or censure and selectively use or ignore laws to further their own ends.
The Killing Time
Edwyn A. Gray. New York: Scribners, 1972.
280 pp. Illus. $7.95.
An interesting history of the German U-boats in World War I.
Kirby Smith’s Confederacy Robert L. Kerby. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. 529 pp. Illus. $12.95.
With the surrender of Vicksburg in July 1863, the South’s Trans-Mississippi Department was cut off from the remainder of the Confederate States and was forced to develop its own resources and defenses without significant support from the eastern states. This is a detailed history of the last two years of the Civil War in which General Edmund Kirby Smith headed both the military and civil components of the departmental government and through his administration managed to preserve the Trans-Mississippi’s nominal integrity until the end of the war. The only fault in this much needed history is too few maps in what is otherwise a fine scholarly effort featuring an extensive bibliography and footnoting.
Kissinger: The Uses of Power David Landau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
>972. 270 pp. $5.95.
The personal motivations, personality and thinking process of the presidential advisor Me probed as a means of understanding current U. S. foreign policy. The quite-often- dogmatic tone intrudes an irritant in what may very well be a fair appraisal of the man, while the author’s conclusion that the Vietnam policy is a failure is used as a weak broad-brush to paint all other aspects of Kissinger-generated initiatives as also being Hawed to the point of collapse.
The Law of Diminishing War Power
John C. Ten Eyck. New York: Pageant Press International, 1970. 272 pp. $6.95.
Sometimes the thinking is a little too simplified, but the overall thesis has much merit—uninterrupted military success can lead to a mania of overconfidence which causes national leaders to overextend their forces in distant territory. By a judicious choice of campaigns, from Troy to Vietnam, the author supports his contention by showing how powerful forces were defeated by decidedly inferior adversaries.
The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy
Alexander L. George, David K. Hall, and William R. Simons. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1971. 268 pp. $3.50.
The authors attempt to bridge the gap between the perspective of the academic investigator and the policy-maker in a study of the use of force in Laos, Cuba, and Vietnam. Their conclusion is that the use of force is proper but must be used judiciously; it should not be used to achieve difficult and complex objectives and should not be used too often; threats are better than the actual use.
The Love of Possession is a Disease With Them
Tom Hayden. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 134 pp. $5.95.
The American involvement in the Vietnam War is seen as a natural growth and continuation of the genocidal policies that pushed the Indians off their lands in the 19th century. The book then cites the current policy of "Vietnamization” as a screen by which "imperial greed and cultural arrogance” will continue to kill, maim and uproot people for another generation in order to provide a market place for the goods produced by a technologically-oriented economy.
Mao’s Way
Edward E. Rice. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1972. 596 pp. $12.95.
Quite readable and intriguing is this political biography of Mao Tse-tung.
The Military and American Society
Stephen E. Ambrose and James Alden Barber,
Jr., (eds.) New York: The Free Press, 1972. 322 pp. Illus. $10.00.
Much of the book offers reprints of already published material, with some original contributions to tic the theme together. The contributors are well-regarded, many have had military experience, and a few of the topics handled are the military’s roles in foreign policy, race relations, the draft, do
mestic order, and ecology. While there is a general concession to mistakes by the military since World War II, there is likewise an overall tone of fairness and a high regard for the military services which are seen as integral, needed parts of American society.
Military Considerations in City Planning: Fortifications
Horst de la Croix. New York: Braziller, 1972.
128 pp. Illus. $5.95.
An illustrated historical survey, of fortifications since ancient times, which relates the science of siege warfare to the state of engineering in its time and theorizes on the relation of fortification types to social and political institutions.
Military Fashion
John Mollo. New York: Putnam, 1972. 240 pp. Illus. $25.00.
This is a comparative study of the uniform styles used by the standing armies of England, Russia, Prussia, France, and Austria, from the 16th century to 1914, together with some commentary on the uniforms in the United States. Intended as a large-format reference featuring excellent color plates, the book falls short of the mark as the text is confusing in style; illustrations are not keyed to the text and are often printed in reverse; comparability and contrast is difficult to see because it is not really shown; the index is poor, and it lacks a glossary. At this price, a bad job.
The Military-Industrial Complex
Sidney Lens. Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970. 183 pp. $2.95 (paper).
The United States is a "garrison state,” wherein the policy of militarism centralizes power in an autocracy which denies the people their humanistic needs in order to continue a warfare policy that enriches the few to the detriment of the many.
The Military-Industrial Complex:
A Reassessment
Sam C. Sarkesian (cd.) Beverly Hills, Calif.:
Sage, 1972. 340 pp. $7.50.
Although a dozen contributors are involved, instead of one author, this reassessment comes to the same conclusions as the previous book.
Military Leaders in the Civil War
Joseph B. Mitchell. New York: Putnam, 1972. 251 pp. Illus. $6.95.
The strengths and weaknesses of ten generals, five from each side, are rated according to their overall abilities and not just their victories or defeats on the battlefield. The Confederate leaders are Lee, Jackson, Johns-
ton, Longstreet, and Hood; the Union generals are McClellan, Grant, Meade, Sherman, and Thomas. The assessments are well-done and the conclusions, strong and unequivocating.
Model Soldiers
W. Y. Carman. New York: World Publishing Company, 1972. 80 pp. Illus. $5.95.
The historical development of toy soldiers is traced from prehistoric times to the present in a short introduction. There are 64 color plates of models, which date back to about 1780, but the color, size, and clarity of the pictures are poor.
The Modern Military in American Society
Charles Walton Ackley. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1972. 400 pp. $10.95.
Drawing heavily on the published writings of professional military men, this former career Navy chaplain examines the impact of military values on the whole society and calls for humanization and democratization of the military in order to maintain its usefulness as a defense instrument without destroying the freedom of the country.
New England and the Sea
Robert G. Albion, William A. Baker, and Benjamin W. Labaree. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. 299 pp. Illus. $12.50.
In words and pictures the book covers three-and-a-half centuries of history from Long Island Sound to the Maine coast, from the first explorations of Cabot to the latest America's cup races. Even the growing problem of pollution is not overlooked.
The Nixon Doctrine
Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1972.
79 pp. $5.00.
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird explains the President’s policy; Senator Robert Griffin provides a short agreement, while Senator Gale McGee and Professor Thomas Schelling take somewhat more time to voice disagreement in this transcript of a meeting to discuss national defense.
Nonalignment: Theory and Current Policy
Leo Mates. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1972. 54} pp. $12.00.
Nonalignment is discussed as a post-World War II trend completely different from the concept of neutrality and neutralism resulting from the alienation of the new and poor countries from the world’s developed nations. However, the author never comes to
grips with what makes nonalignment different from neutrality though he does grope toward analyzing the problems of the new nations. The author is a Yugoslav diplomat who has served in a number of highly responsible positions.
Power and Policy
Claiborne Pell. New York: Norton, 1972.
171 pp. $6.95.
A rather dispassionate appraisal of America’s role in international affairs with the heaviest emphasis on the philosophy of national goals and self-interest. There are few specific suggestions, however; the major one advanced proposes streamlining of the foreign affairs bureaucracy and a strengthening of the role of Congress in the formulation of policy much along the Parliamentary lines as in England.
Practical Navigation for the Yachtsman
Frederick L Devereux, Jr. New York: Norton, 1972. 316 pp. Illus. $12.00.
A minimum of theory is presented in this book, which is arranged for textbook usage and on-board reference needs.
The Question of an Ocean Dumping Convention
Lawson A. W. Hunter. Washington, D.C.:
The American Society of International Law,
1972. 53 pp. $1.50 (paper).
A working group of international lawyers, ocean scientists, and social scientists recommend the calling of an international meeting to resolve the problem of dumping waste products in the ocean. They recognize the need for some dumping, but ask for restraint and control monitored by an international organ of greater autonomy than has been proposed by any government thus far.
Super-State
Robert I. Schiller and Joseph D. Phillips (eds.). Urbana, 111.: University of Illinois Press, 1970. 353 pp. $8.50.
Only five of the two dozen articles presented defend the military-industrial complex which is commented on in every conceivable aspect ranging over sociology, economics, politics, and psychology. The contributors are all well-known and drawn from the worlds of business, government, and the campus.
12, 20 & 5
John A. Parrish. New York: Dutton, 1972.
348 pp. $7.95.
The title alludes to the numerical litany recited by Navy corpsmen in Vietnam. With
the arrival of each medevac helicopter from the battlefield, the corpsman aboard wouli announce three figures to awaiting doctors, which meant: litter-borne wounded, walking-wounded, and dead. Vietnam’s version of M* A* S* H.
United States Law and the Armed Forces Willis E. Schug (ed.). New York: Praeger, 1972. 546 pp. $20.00.
Documentary and commentary material on the court-martial system; the powers of the President and of the Congress relative to the military; the status and rights of Servicemen and the constitutionality of the draft system are presented in an analysis of American la* as it applies to the Armed Forces of the country.
War and Space
Robert Salkeld. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970. 195 pp. $6.95.
Despite the Space Treaty of 1966, which states that signing parties will not extent) the arms race to space, the author feels that the United States would be derelict in its duty if it did not circumvent the treaty in some fashion in order to establish there a sort of deterrent capability to overcome anv offensive capabilities which the Soviets may develop on Earth.
War Without End
Michael Klare. New York: Knopf, 1972. 464
pp. $10.00.
According to the author’s thesis, the corporate elite of the United States, in order to perpetuate its power, must suppress revolutions in the Third World to ensure both the supply of raw materials for its products, as well as a market for those products. The undeveloped countries have no choice but to revolt in order to gain some measure of self-dignity and control of their destinies, which in turn brings about a closed cycle of never-ending wars.
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Silencers: Patterns and Principles
Leonard W. Skochko and Harry A. Grevcris. Forest Grove, Ore.: Normount Technical Publications (1968) 1971. 205 pp. Illus. $5.95 (paper).
Originally published as Frankford Arsenal Report 1896; additional data and illustrations provided by the reprint published
Mountain Operations
Forest Grove, Ore.: Normount Technical Publications (1964) 1972. 159 pp. Illus. $5.00 paper.