December 1919 Proceedings—In “The Yankee Mining Squadron” or “Laying the North Sea Mine Barrage,” squadron commander Captain Reginald R. Belknap, U.S. Navy, wrote, “Besides influencing an early armistice, this great minelaying operation marks an epoch in the use of submarine mines in warfare. The credit belongs not only to the officers and men who were present but also to those of the old mine force to whose services in developing, in our Navy, the art of handling and laying mines in large numbers, the success of the great operation was so largely due.”
December 1969 Proceedings—“In an attempt to help secure an end to war, the delegations at the Conference on the Limitation of Armament—convened in Washington, D.C., the day after Armistice Day 1921—insisted upon severe restrictions for capital ships.” In his essay “Lexington and Saratoga, The New Beginning,” Paul M. Craig continued, “America did not intend to be equipped with entirely inadequate warships; the conversions were authorized and on 1 July 1922—some three months before the small and slow Langley put to sea—the Navy was told to convert the Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3) from battle cruisers to aircraft carriers.”
December 1994 Proceedings—In his Secretary’s Notes, Captain Jim Barber reported, “The present and former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thanked the Institute for the forum it provides during an October Pentagon ceremony for the winners of the First Annual Colin L. Powell Joint Warfighting Essay Contest. General Powell said he was delighted to have the contest named after him because Proceedings offers the best means to articulate naval and military concerns that help make jointness work—transcending service lines and epitomizing open discussion vital to the future of all the armed services.”
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