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Preface
The early years of the 1980s were heady times for the Defense Department in general and the Navy in particular as the Reagan Administration dramatically increased the amounts of spending over previous levels. The 600-ship fleet became a cornerstone of the defense rebuilding project, and the drive toward that goal had no more ardent advocate than Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. But Secretary Lehman is gone now, having resigned to pursue other challenges. Still remaining, however, is a challenge which dogged him during the final phase of his tenure, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings legislation designed to bring the federal budget into balance. As Dr. Scott Truver well explains in this issue, the 600-ship fleet may prove to be a hollow triumph if it is accompanied by a drop in readiness. Moreover, it may be only a passing triumph if future budgets are not able to sustain the numbers of ships desired.
Even though the battle of the budget was frustrating and the defense reorganization of 1986 will require some bureaucratic adjustments, the year’s events still included a lively dose of operations. The sense of relative impunity previously enjoyed by Libya’s Colonel Muammar Qaddafi came to an end with successful strikes by Sixth Fleet carrier aircraft in March and April. The air strikes have been well covered in previous issues of the Proceedings, so the Naval Review takes a longer look in order to put those events in perspective. Dr. Norman Friedman assesses the U. S. Mediterranean fleet at age 40, explaining its reasons for being and its prospects for the future. Friedman’s word processor has been particularly busy for this issue; he also contributed a fine discussion of weapons and combat systems in his annual feature on those subjects. As with the Sixth Fleet, he doesn’t just discuss events but examines their ramifications as well.
As for the last several years, the issue contains topical roundups on a number of subjects in the naval and maritime world. Perhaps the most eloquent testimony to the value of the work of the contributors of these sections came from a flag officer who wrote recently to say that he looks forward to the receipt of a new Naval Review because his last one is dog-eared from use by the time the next one arrives. The contributors who put together these annual summaries bring to their subjects considerable background knowledge and a penchant for hard work in gathering together so much data. It is with a sense of considerable regret that the Naval Review bids farewell with this issue to one such contributor, Colonel Lane C. Kendall. Colonel Kendall has been writing for the Proceedings for some 50 years and in that time has done much to carry out the Naval Institute’s mission of advancing knowledge of the sea services.
In addition to the contributions from the various authors, the publication also depends upon the talents of a number of staff members. Deborah Reid, who doubles as transcriber for the oral history program, has made herself indispensable in many facets of the Naval Review, particularly her painstaking care on the annual Proceedings index and the illustrated list of flag and general officers. Sue Sweeney, whose primary duties are also in the oral history area, did an excellent job of putting together this year’s oral history feature on the Navy’s first black officers; she compiled the excerpts from eight individual oral histories and also tracked down the photos which add a great deal to the feature. LeAnn Bauer, art director of the Proceedings, did her usual superb job of designing the Naval Review, complicated by the fact that she was simultaneously working on the first issue of Naval History magazine; but if the job were easy, we wouldn’t need such a talented person to do it. Claudia Zacharias has the rare gift of making a hard task look effortless, and as a result she makes the production of the Naval Review and other issues of the Proceedings a good deal less nerve-racking for the rest of us. Linda Cullen is in her first year of photo acquisition for the magazine, and she has maintained the high standards of her predecessors. She gets the right pictures and gets them quickly. John Hoshko has been involved in a number of areas, especially with regard to the index of the 1986 issues of Proceedings. Finally, Mark Gatlin has contributed a good deal to the reference value of the Naval Review by coordinating the work on the almanac sections. And his offbeat sense of humor has been a useful tonic for all of us.
The Naval Review is a compilation of hundreds of thousands of words and numbers. But it is more than that, because it is the product of many professionals who care about what they do on behalf of the Naval Institute’s ever-growing membership.
Paul Stillwell
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