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Once again, Brassey’s Annual serves a fich and varied feast of defense opinion and information. If this review, as befits °ne appearing in a maritime publication, concentrates on the "general” and the "sea-orientated,” it is for practical considerations of space. All students of defense should certainly read all of Brassey’s.
Professor Michael Howard, Fellow in Higher Defense Studies at All Souls, Oxford, provides a splendid lead-in with his "Transformation of Strategy.” Here, indeed, is broad-brush work, but laid on with the precision of a Vermeer, delineating the business of the Strategos—”the general”—from the tough medieval and earlier days of extermination and no- holds-barred, through the "quite restrained and even elegant” wars of the 18th and 19th centuries, the national •wars of 1914 and 1939, to today’s
thermo-nuclear return to the "threat of annihilation.”
Howard analyzes this last with great skill, emphasizing the part played by conventional forces, which he aptly describes as the fuze that determines the length of non-nuclear conflict. We should ponder his final deduction: that nuclear weapons have eliminated "war” as a condition distinct from "peace” and, in so doing, have legitimized violence in so-called peacetime; further, that the abandonment of regulated violence and the acceptance of violence as endemic point to a return to "an earlier and grimmer period in the history of mankind.”
Russian viewpoint— Malcolm Mackintosh, Consultant on Soviet Affairs to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, writes under the title "The East-West Military Balance and Soviet Defence Policy,” but, in fact, concentrates on the latter half of this rather cumbrous title and thus provides an excellent follow-on to Michael Howard’s generalizations.
He reminds us of two important Russian attitudes: first, their age-old preoccupation with mass; massed armies in the past, insistence on numerical superiority today in such arms as aircraft and missiles and, in general, a passion for over-insurance; second, their sense of "political mission,” "The Red Man’s Burden?” Thus, the Russians, claiming to be "Europeans,” reckon this entitles them to a say in such "European” affairs as the "decolonialization of Gibraltar,” while at the same time firmly erasing from the agenda of any European Secu
rity conference the discussion of "internal” matters to the east of the Iron Curtain.
Russia, says Mackintosh in effect, is scared of China—as well it might be under present circumstances. Nevertheless, its 40 divisions posted along the border (incidentally, more than it now has in Europe) should be seen strictly as "bargaining counters.”
Looking further west, he assesses that Russia would prefer shore-bases in Egypt, but does not need them, adding a phrase that has taken on new significance since he wrote it: "Much depends on Russia’s staying power in Egypt.” Read "staying” how you will.
Mackintosh’s summing-up is admirably precise: vast military projects account for Russia’s huge military spending. The West must do two things: first, understand Russian aims; second, unite in NATO to meet the challenge.
In "Not in Europe Alone,” John Biggs-Davison, ex-Royal Marine, Conservative MP and vice-chairman of his Party’s Commonwealth and Foreign Affairs Committee, surveys the near side of the Iron Curtain, warning against any ideas that the EEC should be thought of as providing a "cosy refuge from world realities and responsibilities.”
He is followed, in logical sequence if not literally in the annual, by another MP. Unfortunately, Admiral Morgan Giles burdens his text (as does Biggs- Davison to some extent) with lengthy undigested (and indigestible) quotes from such bromidiana as NATO Council Communiques. Despite the undoubted good sense of much of what he says,
one cannot escape the uneasy feeling of
dej'a vu.
Giant or lame dragon?— Edgar O’Bal- lance, wide-ranging reporter of modern wars, poses this question at the start of his "How Strong is China Today.” He follows a comprehensive survey of the political, economic, military, and personal scene with an interesting two-fold conclusion that much will depend on who succeeds Mao and Chou—the Party or the PLA?—and, no matter which, "the increasingly darkening portents ... of growing inevitability of eventual war between the Soviet and Chinese giants.”
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Seamen on the sea—and with style— Captain Hill, currently on a Defense Fellowship at Kings College, London, who writes about "Maritime Forces in Confrontation,” and Admiral Lucey, Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland, who covers "Resources of the Sea,” have that rare, individual and delightful quality of style; a tender plant that receives all too little encouragement in official circles, but whose miraculous survival, as in these two cases, means
that what is said is remembered long after the ponderous periods deemed suitable for the eyes of Very Senior Persons have been (mercifully) forgotten. Further, each writes with authority on a subject of growing importance.
Hill’s conclusion is interesting: that powers with vital maritime interests must have ". . . force enough to hold the ring until their alliance is triggered by the obvious seriousness of the situation and their obvious determination not to let go.” Thus, he says, "... a medium-sized ocean-going navy, provided it commands a comprehensive range of power and is backed by political will, can be decisive.”
Lucey not only presents an excellent and concise review of the whole range of "resources,” skilfully backed by figures that are comprehensive, yet never overpowering, but he takes the question to its proper (but seldom considered) conclusion: just how do we define, delineate, and defend these maritime assets?
Douglas Phillips-Birt asks another good question: what exactly is "a maritime strategy?” In his "Background to Maritime Strategy,” this naval architect and writer declares that the answer has never been clear-cut—not, at all events, in the present century and least of all just before World War II. He ascribes the defects in our war plans during these years to failure to think the problems through to firm conclusions, and ultimately (here he quotes Liddell Hart) ", . . to the difficulty of developing a truly critical habit of mind under the conditions of military subordination.” Officers—of all ranks—would do well to think on these wise words. The way of the dissenter is hard, for, if there is one situation that is worse than being wrong when everyone else is right, it is being right (and junior) when every one else is wrong.
American view— Captain Ellery Clark, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired), is well known to readers of the Proceedings. His "Trends in American Naval Thought Since World War II,” turns out to be an analysis of the subjects of essays—and especially the Prize Essays—published in the Proceedings; a little narrow, perhaps, for the sweep of the title, but at any rate a (well-earned) compliment to the Naval Institute.
Clark contrasts the shifting emphasis
between the immediate postwar period (1946 to 1962) and the following decade. Inevitably, this means statistics, but these should be seen as pointers rather than proof. For instance, does not the statement that "essays on personnel ate more frequent than those on any other subject” beg the question, what is "a subject?”
Subject to this caveat, there is much of interest to the British reader in this forthright article, though some of it will doubtless be familiar ground to members of the Naval Institute. Clark is justly proud of the freedom of expression allowed by the U. S. fighting Services, and so ably fostered by the Naval Institute. It is also interesting to note the broad scope of the contributors—serving officers and enlisted men, retired Navy men, civilians—all are encouraged to set forth their opinions and helpful criticism. Whitehall would do well to study this article.
Essential import— Defense runs on oil and, it might be said, oil-supply depends on defense. Dr. Odell, Professor of Economic Geography at the Netherlands School of Economics, writes clearly, if not very blithely, on "Oil and Western European Security.” We should heed his warning.
The shift away from coal has been rapid; from 90% in 1950 to a forecast of 10 to 15% in the late 1970s (only 1091 nuclear, leaving a yawning 70 to 75 to be filled by imported oil). He notes the new-found solidarity of the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (though, oddly enough, he never refers to them by this well known collective title) and proclaims: "The period of cheap oil is over.” He adds, with glum satisfaction: "The outlook is bleak . . . and generally considered to be getting worse.”
Odell does, however, admit a ray or two of hope: greater exploitation of both natural gas and North Sea oil, so far "played down and underrated.” Likewise, although he forecasts a tonnage peak for Middle East oil in the mid- 1970s, he sees a decline thereafter. Let us hope, he concludes blandly, for a few more warm winters.
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In sum, this annual, now in its 83rd year, comprises a well-chosen, thought- provoking cross-section of current high-grade defense thinking. We should be grateful to the editor, General Moulton, for the skill with which he has chosen his subjects and their authors.
The Turkish Straits and NATO
Ferenc A. Vali. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institute Press, 1972. 348 pp. Illus. $9.95.
Reviewed by David J. Nelson
(Aft. Nelson attended the U. S. Naval Academy from June 1962 until February 1963. He received his B.A. degree in political science from California State College in 1967, and his M.A. degree in education from Chapman College in 1970. He is presently a teacher of government and history at Loara High School in Anaheim, California, and is a candidate for an Af.A. degree in political science at California State University.)
"Turkey and the Straits are the West’s Stalingrad—-a fortress where all available tesources, diplomatic and military, must be concentrated against the possibility of an eventual assault.” With this statement, Ferenc Vali summarizes the events of some two centuries that have moved inexorably to a point of confrontation over the question of the Turkish Straits. The geostrategic importance of such a focal point, viewed as an open channel to Russia’s "soft underbelly,” cannot be easily refuted—particularly in the face of the burgeoning Soviet naval strength.
Vali judges the Turkish Straits to have been the key to any Russian move toward the Mediterranean as well as a potential avenue of attack against Russia. From this is derived the belief that Russia can be expected to move toward dominating the Straits and surrounding areas in the near future as has been attempted in the past. Historically, the point is well taken, and the author traces the continuing struggle for domi
nance of this area in order to substantiate the need for a policy-oriented examination of the Straits such as presented in this book.
From the Greek myth of Jason passing through the clashing rocks, through the Ottoman success at Constantinople and the Allied defeat at Gallipoli, to the establishment of the Turkish Republic under Mustafa Kemal in 1922, the struggle for control of those passages has been one of military or naval conquest. During most of this span of centuries the "Ancient Rule of the Ottoman Empire” applied to the Straits. Simply put, no foreign vessel was to be allowed access to the Black Sea, and only commercial ships protected by treaty with the Empire itself would be allowed even as far as the harbor at Constantinople. There were exceptions to this rule when deemed necessary for the defense of the Ottoman Empire as could be expected. In 1799, 1805, and 1833, the Russians were granted permission to pass warships through the Straits for a period of time during which the Empire was under duress. As minor as these concessions would appear, they did establish precedents which have been both used and abused by later Russian claims.
Ataturk’s (Mustafa Kemal) rise to power brought an end to application of force as a means to gain Straits dominance. The ensuing Peace Conference of Lausanne led to a special "Convention Relating to the Regime of the Straits” in 1923, which removed arbitrary closing of them and set up a system of international control. As the international move toward disarmament prevalent in the 1920s yielded to nationalistic attitudes of the 1930s, it became obvious that the Lausanne Straits Convention was no longer a viable deterrent to the forced curtailment of straits navigation. Turkey, realizing the need for protection against a potential attack, requested the Lausanne signatories to meet for the purpose of adapting the Regime of the Straits. This culminated in the Mon- treux Convention of 1936, which has served to ". . . regulate transit and navigation in the Straits . . . within the framework of Turkish security and of the security, in the Black Sea, of Riparian States.”
As new naval weaponry and ship- types, as well as techniques of warfare,
developed through World War II, the need for revision of this document became apparent and was discussed at both Yalta and Potsdam. Agreements could not be reached, however, and the Soviet Union resorted to intimidation of Turkey and thinly disguised claims to bases in the Straits—based on "historic rights” as conveniently expanded by Russian historians. Confrontation prompts action, and in this instance, Turkey, faced with Russian might, opted for the protection of the West and entered NATO and other European organizations. This became, in the author’s view, a major strength point of the defense of Europe and the continuance of the Atlantic community. By Turkish application of the Montreux Convention, with NATO supportive arms, a rapid expansion of Soviet naval strength in the Mediterranean from the Black Sea is impossible legally.
After developing his point from historical, strategic, and legal stances, Vali provides a series of issues that may develop over the use of the Turkish Straits and some of the options then available to the United States, Turkey, and the Soviet Union. In light of the rapid growth of Soviet seapower, Soviet penetration into the Middle East, and the power vacuum left by the British withdrawal from "East of Suez,” Soviet interest in extending influence over the Straits area cannot be dismissed.
Although our national attention has been focused on other areas in recent months, the Eastern Mediterranean must be kept under study.* The Turkish Straits and NATO is an excellent reference source for any study of the area through which passes the "umbilical cord” of Soviet penetration into the Middle East. The author presents a readable account of a long historical development and provides documentation (half the book is devoted to appendices of applicable documents and an extensive bibliography) for further understanding of this vital area. This should be required reading for anyone examining the interrelationships between foreign policy and naval power as a means of implementation of a nation’s goals.
*See E. P. Sullivan, "The Adriatic: Soviet Seaway Someday?,” U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1972, pp. 26-31.
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Afrika Korps
Peter Chamberlain and Chris Ellis. London: Almarlc, 1971. 32 pp. Illus. 50p (paper).
A pictorial guide to German military operations in the Western Desert in 1941 and 1942.
The Berlin Crisis 1958-1962
Jack M. Schick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. 266 pp. 19.50.
A carefully reasoned account of a Cold War crisis point that sees the United States acting as if all its diplomatic moves were understood and accepted by friend and foe, and sees the Soviet Union over-reacting to what appeared to be a threat but was in reality an attempt to maintain the status quo.
Boeing
Kenneth Munson and Gordon Swanborough. New York: Arco, 1972. 144 pp. Illus. $4.95 (paper).
An illustrated history of one of the world’s largest aircraft companies, a producer of military aircraft, large commercial jet airliners, helicopters, missiles, and space vehicles.
Change in the Communist System
Chalmers Johnson (cd.). Stanford, Calif:
Stanford University Press, 1970. 368 pp. $8.95.
Twelve specialists on Communism, using contemporary models of social science the-
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ory, analyze the problems of social, political, and economic change in the 14 existent Communist systems.
Conflict: Violence and Nonviolence
Joan V. Bondurant (ed ). Chicago: Aldinc-Athcrton, 1971. 206 pp. $7.95.
This anthology concentrates on the forms, uses and limitations of violence, nonviolence, and symbolic violence as techniques for advancing political change.
Crimes of War
Richard A. Falk, Gabriel Kolko, Robert J.
Lifton (eds.). New York: Random House, 1971. 590 pp. $10.00.
A legal, political, and psychological inquiry into the responsibility of leaders, citizens and soldiers for criminal acts in wars.
The Draft and Public Policy
James M. Gcrhardt. Columbus, O.: Ohio State University Press, 1971. 425 pp. $15.00.
The evolution of American military manpower procurement policy over the past 25 years is studied, as arc the current pressures for changes in the Selective Service; solutions to the problems inherent in the system are not proposed, although the case for reform is set out.
The Foot Guards Regiments
A. H. Bowling. London: Almark, 1972. 64 pp. Illus. £1.25 (paper).
An album of photographs and illustrations portray the uniforms and equipment of these regiments at the most colorful period of British military history, 1880 to 1914.
The Foreign Affairs Fudge Factory
John Franklin Campbell. New York: Basic Books, 1971. 292 pp. $6.95.
While more readable than I. M. Destler's Presidents, Bureaucrats, and Foreign Policy, the major premise is the same—reform is needed
and personal aides to the president are no1 the answer. Major suggestions are: centralis all foreign aid spending in the State Depart' ment and cut the Department’s staff by 50#
The German Rearmament Question
Robert McGeehan. Urbana, III: University of Illinois Press, 1971. 280 pp. $10.00.
This study is concerned with the evolution of the U. S. demand for a German military' contribution to NATO into a call for polirt' cal unification of Western Europe. Its conclusion is that German rearmament brought far more important political results than the military frustrations attending the delay in Germany’s rearming.
Halbkettenfahrzeuge
J. Williamson. London: Almark, 1972. 32 pp Illus. 50p (paper).
A representative sampling of half-track vehicles used by the German Army in World War II.
Himmler
Alan Wykes. New York: Ballantinc, 1972. 160 pp. Illus. $1.00 (paper).
Almost as much coverage is given to Rein- hard Heydrich as to Heinrich Himmler in this superficial, yet chilling, biography.
The Holocaust
William Hermanns. New York: Harper &
Row, 1972. 141 pp. Illus. $5.95.
The full horror of Verdun as remembered all too clearly by a German survivor.
In Some Foreign Field
L. Vanloan Naisawald. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 1972. 80 pp. Illus. $2.95 (paper)
HMS Bedfordshire, an antisubmarine trawler- on loan to the U. S. Navy in the early day5 of World War II, was sunk by the off North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Thi' vignette tells of the ship’s short career in
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American waters, her torpedoing, and the burial of an officer and three seamen of the Royal Navy on Ocracoke Island, where a small cemetery remains to this day.
Insurgency
Andrew M. Scott. Chapel Hill, N.C.: North Carolina Press, 1970. 139 pp. lllus. $6.00.
Sociology, political science, economics, and systems analysis are the disciplines used in this study of guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency.
The Life Guards
Charles Stadden. London: Almark, 1971. 68 pp. Ulus. £1.25 (paper).
Line drawings and colored plates display the dress and appointments of this most famous of British cavalry regiments from 1660 to 1914.
Master Planning the Aviation Environment
Angelo J. Cerchione, Victor E. Rothe, James Vercellino (cds.). Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, 1970. 208 pp. Illus. $10.00.
The problems of aviation in the 1970s and beyond are the subject of papers concerned with vehicle and terminal design, legal problems, and the growing concern with various pollution hazards.
Men of Intelligence
Kenneth Strong. New York: St. Martin’s, 1972. 183 pp. Illus. $6.95.
Based on his own long experience in the intelligence field, the author presents a sur- vey, often anecdotal in form, of a dozen men who were responsible for the establishment and implementation of modern intelligence processes in a national or international framework from World War I to the present.
Mussolini
Christopher Hibbcrt. New York: Ballantine,
>972. 160 pp. Illus. $1.00 (paper).
A rather trivial biography with even worse illustrations.
Night of the Long Knives
Nikolai Tolstoy. New York: Ballantine, 1972.
•60 pp. Illus. $1.00 (paper).
Mostly an historical prelude to the event described in the book reviewed below.
The Night of the Long Knives
Nax Gallo. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
J10 pp. Illus. $8.95.
^ thorough recreation of the deadly events between Saturday, 30 June 1934 and Monday, 2 July, when Hitler’s SS, with army
concurrence, wiped out Ernst Roehm and his brown-shirted storm troopers.
Nothing, And So Be It
Oriana Fallaci. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
320 pp. $7.95.
In diary-style, an Italian journalist tells of her numbing experiences in Vietnam and the Mexico City riots of 1968, where she was wounded three times by police gunfire.
Ocean Racing
Eric Tabarly. New York: Norton, 1972. 171 pp. Illus. $10.00.
An expert tells how to design racing yachts and win ocean races both single-handedly and with a crew.
OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency
R. Harris Smith. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1972. 458 pp. Illus. $10.95.
Laced with many well-recognized names, the overall tone is superficial rather than probing in this poorly constructed operational history.
Panzer-Grenadiers
Peter Chamberlain and Chris Ellis. London: Almark, 1972. 32 pp. Illus. 50p (paper).
A pictorial of German motorized and armored infantry units, featuring their uniforms and equipment as well as their organization and tactics.
Panzer-j'iger
Peter Chamberlain and Chris Ellis. London: Almark, 1971. 32 pp. Illus. 50p (paper).
Almost as much captured and converted equipment as German guns is seen in this pictorial of self-propelled and also anti-tank guns that were used by the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Power, Pollution and Public Policy
Dennis W. Ducsik. Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press, 1972. 322 pp. $12.95 (paper).
Six rather lengthy papers consider the issues in electric power production, shoreline recreation, and air and water pollution specifically in New England, but obviously applicable on a national scale.
Presidents, Bureaucrats, and Foreign Policy
I. M. Destler. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972. 329 pp. $10.00.
Based on an analysis of the decision-making process of the present administration and the Kennedy-Johnson administrations, the author assesses recent State Department efforts
at organizational reform, and puts forward a strategy aimed at avoiding mistakes made in past efforts. His major conclusion is that President Nixon’s use of a personal aide, Henry Kissinger, to build foreign policy, is a mistake, as he feels the Secretary of State has the stronger institutional power base and is able to better coordinate foreign policy.
The Role of the Military Professional in U. S. Foreign Policy
Donald F. Bletz. New York: Praeger, 1972.
338 pp. $16.50.
The objective of this study is to examine the extent to which the requirements of a Cold War have forced the military into the formulation of foreign policy, and to make a judgment on the degree to which the national interest is being served by this and to recommend courses of action for the future.
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel Eliot Morison. Boston, Mass.: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1972. 299 pp. Illus.
$10.00.
The Father of New France is both well- known in American history for his exploits, yet is unknown as a person. For all his ability as a sailor, navigator, and colonizer, Champlain, himself, left no strong impression, even his burial place in Quebec has been lost. With such a bland personality, the biographer must be able to blow life into his subject. While this book reflects the fine style of the author and the accomplishments of Champlain are clearly delineated, Champlain is still a shadow and not a person.
A Secret War
Oliver J. Caldwell. Carbondale, 111.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. 218 pp. Illus. $5.95.
An American army officer was assigned to the OSS, detailed to Chiang Kai-shek’s Secret Military Police, but with the approval of his OSS superior, worked with secret societies dedicated to overthrowing the Generalissimo. This is his account of American activities in China in 1944 and 1945.
The Service
Reinhard Gehlen. New York: World, 1972.
386 pp. Illus. $10.00.
In these memoirs, General Gehlen tells of his years as head of Wehrmacht intelligence on the Russian front, his postwar gentleman’s agreement with the American government, and the eventual transfer from CIA control to the Bonn government. The writing is dry, almost laconic, even when recounting secret operations—both successes and failures. One thought keeps cropping
up throughout the book: if there were no curious newspapers or legislative bodies and bumbling politicians, General Gehlen could have run the world much more efficiently.
Spy Trade
E. H. Cookridge. New York: Walker, 1972.
288 pp. Illus. $6.95.
The exchange of prisoners of war is a time- honored custom of warfare that has been adapted to cold warfare by the exchanging of captured espionage agents. In this book, with its double-meaning title, the mechanics of the profession and the bartering for the agents is explained in considerable detail.
To the Yalu
James McGovern. New York: Morrow, 1972.
219 pp. Illus. $6.95.
With appraisals of President Truman and General MacArthur, this is an intriguing interweaving of the military and political events which forced the Chinese Communists to intervene in Korea, forced the President to fire a dramatic general, and saw the Red Chinese pushed into an isolation that is just now beginning to change.
United States Military Aircraft Since 1908
Gordon Swanborough and Peter M. Bowers. London: Putnam, 1971. 675 pp. Illus. $6.50.
The new aircraft and many changes to older equipment that have occurred since the last edition in 1963, are incorporated in this volume, which is current to 1971. Older material has also been revised, and an appendix added to illustrate the balloons and airships used by the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force.
Vimy Ridge 1914-18
Kenneth Macksey. New York: Ballantine, 1972. 160 pp. Illus. $1.00 (paper).
A detailed pictorial of the see-saw battle waged for this strategic position.
Wars and Rumors of Wars
Roger Lincoln Shinn. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1972. 298 pp. Illus. $5.95.
In the first part of the volume, the author tells of his experiences as a captain in the 9th Armored Division, who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge, and his life
as a POW until the last days of the war. In the second part, he examines his own feelings and the philosophical questions raised by war as a method for handling social problems.
Western Pacific Operations
George W. Garand and Truman R. Strobridge. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1971. 848 pp. Illus. $10.00.
The story of Marine actions during a decisive phase of the Pacific War—the invasion of Peleliu, the battle for Iwo Jima, and Marine aviation in the Philippines and against the bypassed Marshalls and the Western Carolines—is told in this fourth volume of the History of Marine Corps Operations in World War II.
Wild Blue U
Ed Mack Miller and Pat Coffey. New York: Macmillan, 1972. 161 pp. Illus. $3.95 (paper).
Although one chapter is titled, "Warts, Pimples and Pain,” there is very little of the first two and quite a bit of the latter in noble form in this recruiting catalog-story of the U. S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
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Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions
Robert Fulton. Chicago: The Swallow Press [1810], 1971. 57 pp. Illus. $10.00.
A handsome reproduction of the treatise which foresaw the coming of the submarine as a major warship nearly a century before the actuality.
Combat Flame Operations
Forest Grove, Ore.: Normount Technical Publications [1965], 1971. Ill pp. Illus. $3.50 (paper).
Reprint of Army Field Manual 20-33.
German Military Improvisations During the Russian Campaign
Forest Grove, Ore.: Normount Technical Publications [1947], 1971. 110 pp. Illus. $3-00 (paper).
Reprint of DA Pam. 20-201.
The Gun 1834
William Greener. Forest Grove, Ore.: Normount Technical Publications [1835], 1971- 240 pp. Illus. $4.50 (paper).
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% Capt. Edwin A. MacDonald, USN (Ret.). 1969. 239 pages. Illustrated. $ 15.00 ($10.50)
Sail and Power. $9.50 ($7.00)
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Weather for the Mariner
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Command at Sea
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Military Law
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Optical Properties of the Sea
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Sea and Air: The Naval Environment
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Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations
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Guide to the Soviet Navy
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Naval Terms Dictionary
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Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages
By E. L. Bloomster. 2nd edition. 1969. 86 pages. 425 illustrations. Appendices. $12.50 ($10.00)
Ships and Aircraft of the U. S. Fleet
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The Airships Akron & Macon, Flying Aircraft Carriers of the U. S. Navy
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American Steel Navy
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First Across! The U. S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919
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From a Small Naval Observatory
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Greek and Roman Naval Warfare
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The Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy By Anthony E. Sokol. First English language history of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. 184 pages. Illustrated. 1968. $19.50 ($12.00)
Lady in the Navy
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Modern History of Warships
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National Security and International Trusteeship in the Pacific
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Naval Regulations 1802
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Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries
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Night Action off Cape Matapan
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Soldiers of the Sea
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Soviet Naval Strategy
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Wings for the Fleet: . . . Naval Aviation’s Early Development. 1910-1916
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Yangtze Patrol
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Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage
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