January 1923 Proceedings—In “The Automatic Depth Recorder as an Aid to Navigation,” Navy Lieutenant S. G. Lamb wrote of the new device, “The principle on which the apparatus works is, briefly, as follows: The time interval between making a sound wave on board ship, such that the wave is transmitted to the water through the skin of the ship, and the reception of the reflected wave from the sea bottom, is accurately measured and the depth is calculated from this time interval, having previously determined the velocity of sound in sea water.”
January 1973 Proceedings—“Accountability is the form by which discipline is established and maintained,” Navy Lieutenant Commander Bill C. Dean wrote in “Accountability: The Crumbling Keystone.” “But, in today’s Navy, it has deteriorated to the point that discipline is mostly maintained by the executive officer and the commanding officer. They are—because they have to be—the driving forces of the ship. They . . . must often compensate for the malaise that prevails among the senior petty officers. Equally bad . . . is the vapidity of the junior officers who, in their desire to be liked, seem desperately anxious to surrender to the demands of their bluejackets.”
January 1998 Proceedings—In “Network-Centric Warfare, Its Origin and Future” Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, U.S. Navy, and John J. Garstka wrote, “Network-centric warfare and all its associated revolutions in military affairs grow out of and draw their power from fundamental changes in American society dominated by the co-evolution of economics, information technology, and business processes: the shift in focus from the platform to the network; the shift from viewing actors as independent to viewing them as part of a continuously adapting ecosystem; and the importance of making strategic choices to adapt or even survive in such changing ecosystems.”
A. Denis Clift
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