August 1922 Proceedings—In “Employment and Tactics of Aircraft in Naval Warfare,” Commander John P. Jackson, U.S. Navy, wrote, “War as conducted on land and sea has, through centuries of practice and experience, laid down certain immutable principles. A doctrine for the conduct of war on land and sea has come to be recognized. . . . The advent of aircraft has introduced elements so different from those hitherto employed, and whose capabilities are as yet so little appreciated, that an entire new field has suddenly been opened up for the conduct of hostile operations . . . which may well revolutionize modern warfare.”
August 1972 Proceedings—“The current laws governing U.S. national defense presume that separate land, sea, and air war are gone forever,” Captain Paul Schratz, U.S. Navy (Retired), wrote in his First Honorable Mention Prize Essay “The Nuclear Carrier and Modern War.” “Perhaps we are now ready to look into the modern mystery as to why the Navy, always of a strategic cast of mind, did not rush to exploit the dramatic new dimension which nuclear energy offered modern sea power in a strategic sense through the nuclear-powered attack carrier.”
August 1997 Proceedings—In “Marine Mammals Are a Force Multiplier,” Commander David M. Renwick, U.S. Navy, Rob Simmons, and Dr. Scott C. Truver wrote, “In its diverse kit-bag of resources, the Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) force maintains a small but vital element that provides unique capabilities to support mine countermeasures and other important post–Cold War operations. The Marine Mammals System (MMS) is made up of specially trained bottlenose dolphins and sea lions that use their natural capabilities to detect and pinpoint objects in the water and on or under the seabed. Other dolphins have been trained to detect and mark an adversary’s combat swimmers.”
A. Denis Clift
Golden Life Member