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Silencing the Tattletale
The Soviet tattletale has been with us for 20 years or more, but I wonder if we have sufficiently faced up to the implications.
It seems safe to assume that the tattletale is there not only to observe our operations for intelligence purposes, but also to signal data to the missile firers—the vital identification and positional data without which the preemptive coordinated attack will probably fail.
Both sides must realize that tattle- taling at the outbreak of war is a suicide mission; the only difference for the tattletale between death-and-glory and simply death is timing—the timing of our retaliation.
Since our rules of engagement may be balanced on a knife-edge just prior to hostilities, and may be dependent
on other rapidly changing indicators, it seems possible that we may have only a few seconds in which to eliminate the tattletale. During those few seconds nothing, perhaps in the entire history of naval warfare, will be so important as doing that job properly.
But how good will our present capability be? We have birddogs (airborne aircraft ready to pounce), but how quickly can they react? Keeping them overhead, perhaps for days, is a difficult business. Certainly, we have effective missiles, but missiles have minimum ranges and can be detected on route, giving the tattletale a chance to retaliate on the carrier with her own missiles. Or, guns? Gunfire may not be sufficiently accurate or immediately crippling. And in stationing a ship for anti-tattletale duties there may be penalties in the effectiveness of her primary role.
1 believe the answer is to fit certain ships with a number of devices specially designed for the anti-tattletale role. Requirements for such a ship would be:
► Good speed and endurance
► Sophisticated jammers
► A bank of shotgun-type fragment' firing guns to demolish antennas at close range
► Anti-missile-in-tube weapons (perhaps Vulcan Phalanx)
► Electromagnetic pulse generators
► A variety of ship stoppers
1 also believe one could take an older combatant, perhaps a Knox (fi' 1052) class, and refit her reasonably cheaply to become a ship with a new primary role: a tattletale destroyer (DDT). And it would do no harm f°r the tattletale to see such a beast fol' lowing him around. .
Then, the admiral can get on wlt the other aspects of a complicated situation, confident that, when he gives the word, the tattletale is a dead dog—instantly!
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Germany, to his readers. Without ideal*
ing war, the book demonstrates d*®* those who fight are led and c manded by intelligent, profession
Die Deutschen Hilfskreuzer im Zweiten Weltkrieg (The German Auxiliary Cruisers in the Second World War)
Jochen Brennecke. Herford, Germany: Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft, 1979. 481 pp. Illus. Maps. DM 49 (Approx. $25.48.)
Reviewed by Colonel Wolfgang Gerhardt, German Army
Colonel Gerhardt is currently serving as ACOS G-3 in the Headquarters Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland in Rendsburg, Germany.
Feared but respected was a group of German ships that plowed and fought on the seven seas during World War II. The German auxiliary cruisers, as they were officially called, were put to sea as an additional war effort by the German Navy to inflict losses on Allied shipping. Nine ships sank or captured and brought to port nearly 855,000 tons—an almost unbelievable figure in view of the seapower that the Allied navies had as they guarded their vital sea lines of communication.
Many individual stories and books have been published on this group of
German ships, but most are ^ aggerated and not accurate. Now many hitherto closed official fileS available, an accurate compilation ^ renowned German author on sea j fare has been published. In a vivid an realistic description, enriched by na personal interviews with participan the author brings the individual of^ ations of these handelsstorer (cornme
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1C|al biography of Mountbatten’s ,ents (Louis and Victoria) with the cooperation of the Royal Family.
and highly qualified officers, war can be fought in a more pragmatic way, Wlth respect toward the human being.
But this is not the only message the book communicates. It gives insight 'nto strategic, operational, and logis- tlc problems that both sides enc°untered in this particular theater °f war.
Die Deutschen Hilfskreuzer is well il- strated with diagrams, maps, course charts, and photographs, and includes a complete bibliography of German and Allied sources. Considered a part sea warfare history, hopefully this ^ne of today’s famous captains, Ad- oural Bernhard Rogge (later a three- ^tar admiral in the new German armed 0fces and a senior Allied commander ,,e °re retirement) wrote the foreword. Comradeship and respect before the er>emy ’ were the codewords for the Success of this unique little armada.
^ountbatten—Hero of Our Time
jCchard Hough. New York: Random ,.0use> 1981. 256 pp. Illus. Ind. $15.00 13.50).
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°yal Navy (Retired)
^ta‘n Coote was a Royal Navy submariner Al °JaW Uar serv'ce °ff Norway and in the e ,lerranean and later held four sea ^™ands, 1948-54. Based in Washington,
’’ u'as on liaison duty with the U. S. Submarine Forces, 1955-57. At age in V? ns'&ned10 go into newspaper publishing e*t Street, ending as Deputy Chairman of eai’erbrook Newspapers.
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Unlike most World War II leaders, Mountbatten never wrote his autobiography. Instead, he characteristically went for a much wider audience by acting it out through a television series. Even his closest friends could not claim that his version of events was distinguished by its diffidence or any admission of ever having been in error. This, coupled with his obsession with his place in Royal genealogy and his love of ceremonies, uniforms, and medals, obscured his considerable achievements as a leader in the series.
Those in the wardrooms of the fleet recalled Dickie’s brash self-confidence and Royal name-dropping as a junior officer. Soon after his 22nd birthday, he married the richest and most brilliant girl in the glittering society of the time. Most of his contemporaries remained wedded to the service until they reached 30—a custom encouraged by King’s Regulations which did not pay a marriage allowance until the age of 26. .
His relatively brief time spent at sea—less than ten years in all from the day he joined Admiral Beatty’s flagship as a midshipman until he swam away from HMS Kelly off Crete as a Captain (D)—is also noted in the book. “A very gallant officer, but as a practical seaman I have my doubts,” muttered the captain of HMS Repulse to me as Dickie brought his beloved Kelly back to Scapa Flow in November 1940 after having been all but rebuilt since losing successive encounters with U-boats and mines. She entered harbor so fast that her wash pounded ships’ boats against the armored sides of six battleships and three carriers lying at anchor.
Richard Hough points out that his obsession for speed regardless of circumstances or consequences was evident in every failure that marked Mountbatten’s path. It culminated in the ultimate disaster brought about by the reckless pace of Britain’s withdrawal from India in 1947. He never won a battle at sea and was, to put it mildly, accident-prone. On hearing of his impending appointment to command a fleet carrier, his cousin King George VI remarked: “Well, there goes Illustrious. ”
It was only when his dynamic qualities of military leadership, drive, and magnetic personality could be deployed on a larger canvas than that afforded by a destroyer squadron that he realized his full potential, greatly to the benefit of the Allies at a crucial time. As Chief of Combined Operations he is unjustly remembered mainly for the bloodbath at Dieppe, rather than the North African landings or the electrifying successes at Bruneval and St. Nazaire. It must be said that the latter two raids owed more to the gallantry of the men on the spot than to any stroke of genius in their planning. Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian Press baron and confidant of Churchill’s, saw Dieppe as a terrible error of judgment, leading to the “murder” of thousands of his countrymen. In retrospect, it can be argued that Mountbatten should have cancelled the raid following inevitable security leaks during a four-week postponement for weather. Or he should have insisted on it being supported by a bombardment on the scale needed for a frontal landing by tanks.
But Richard Hough comes down on the side of the calmer judgments. In the context of what was happening over Germany every night or on the Russian front, the casualties were trivial—yet well worthwhile. The lessons learned at Dieppe saved thousands of Allied lives on the D-day beaches. Even today, the French Tourist Board’s official guidebook on Dieppe refers to the raid as having “hastened the day when the Nazi yoke was lifted from France.”
The Combined Operations staff was welded by Mountbatten into a model of interservice teamwork, from which sprang directly the successive Allied commands which were to win the war. If for nothing else, Mountbatten deserves his place in history as the Supremo of South-East Asia Command. His love of the United States and its ways, his style, and easy charm captivated many key American soldier- politicians, without whom he could never have pulled it off. George Marshall, “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, Douglas MacArthur, and Ernie King unexpectedly became his supporters. Those who worked closely with him, including his 7,000-strong staff at his
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headquarters in Ceylon, were bound to him with unquestioning adulation. The men who stuck it out through the monsoon to take on the Japs in the jungles and the airmen who unflinchingly flew in their supplies against all the odds were motivated by his highly personal, if contrived, style of leadership.
His political masters denied him the major victory he had planned for his command by diverting the landing craft he needed to hit Malaysia (Operation Buccaneer) for what turned out to be an unnecessary landing in the South of France.
With the war won, work began to rehabilitate our 123,000 prisoners and to let the 128 million people within his area of responsibility who were suddenly freed from Japanese occupation see some light at the end of the tunnel. The Mountbattens then set off for Australia to thank the Dominions for their part in the victory. They arrived in Sydney to be greeted by a newspaper headline which unwittingly said it all: “Mountbatten—Prince, Playboy and Paradox.” The first epithet he had no wish to live down, even though he had long since ceased to be entitled to it; the second went out with the lights of London in 1939; but the third followed him to his grave.
Action Imminent: Three Studies of the Naval War in the Mediterranean Theatre during 1940
Peter C. Smith. London: William Kimber, 1980. 351 pp. Ulus. Ind. Bib. Approx. $20.00.
Reviewed by Eric J. Grove
A graduate from Aberdeen and London universities, Mr. Grove is working as an exchange professor at the U. S. Naval Academy this year. He is also working on research projects in recent naval history, including a biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield.
Action Imminent is a rather aboveaverage product of its prolific author. In some ways, it is excellent. But, like all of Smith’s works, it is a frustrating book, almost fatally flawed as serious naval history. This is all the more regrettable as the author has obviously done an enormous amount of research and tapped all the right sources. Two of his subjects, the battles of Calabria and Spartivento, need the good modern accounts that Mr. Smith has tried to provide. There is also more to discover about the Dudley North affair. The author has significant things to say about all three, and his often remarkably fait analyses correct some earlier accounts- The book is properly and competently annotated and is thus at once authoritative to the general reader and useful to the serious student.
Nevertheless, the book’s defects ate too significant to be overlooked. The author’s lack of training as a historian comes through in his setting of the historical background. Errors some times masquerade as facts, an analyses here and there are to° simplistic. The author’s enthusiast^ pro-battleship prejudice often clouds his judgment, and his comments on the vulnerability of carriers and the limitations of air forces are rather su perficial. Both Calabria and Spartivento did show the essential limit* tions of British and Italian maritime air power, but to go from the particU lar to the general in this context smacks of special pleading. This *s great shame, as the two battles Pf0 vide significant evidence for the we3 nesses of the two sides’ “naval a<r policies. |-
There is indeed a general lack 0 sense of proportion about the book. Smith has difficulty weig the importance of his sources and g^ far too worked up about books that should not take very seriously Moreover, despite the quality of c research, there are some signi‘lC gaps. Given the author’s prejudiceSj there are predictable weaknesses an confusions in the aircraft referenceS’ but, more importantly and surp ^ ingly, the central question of bat ship surface fire control is gl°sse over. The new systems of the t>rsP .
accurate shooting and should ha' been at least mentioned. ^
Despite these problem areas, book remains one worth reading the new perspectives it contains.
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