May 1923 Proceedings—In “Incidents and Present-Day Aspects of Naval Strategy,” Captain Frank H. Schofield, U.S. Navy, wrote, “In the winter of 1915, in command of the cruiser USS Chester (CS-1), I was sent to the West Coast of Africa to lend moral support to the Liberian Government on the occasion of a native revolt. . . . It struck me at the time with amazing force that there before me lay the aims and accomplishments of sea strategy. To fight and overcome in order: To control the sea; . . . to deny it to one’s enemies; . . . to bring pressure of want on the enemy; and finally by combined land and sea action to bring the enemy to terms.”
May 1973 Proceedings—In “Marine Corps Operations in Vietnam, 1969–1972,” Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), wrote, “The Corps’ peak strength during Vietnam was 317,400, far under the peak of 485,113 reached in World War II, but during the six years of Vietnam some 730,000 men and women served in the Corps as opposed to some 600,000 in World War II. The reason for the lower peak strength yet higher total number serving was, of course, that Vietnam was fought using peacetime personnel policies.”
May 1998 Proceedings—“While ignoring Russian protests, the U.S. administration has even made promises to support NATO membership for the Baltic republics,” Susan Eisenhower wrote in “Starting Cold War II?” “When historians look back decades from now, they will, no doubt, be struck by this and wonder why we learned so little from the history of the 20th century. World War I made outcasts of Germany and Russia, sowed the seeds for another war with Germany, and brought about a siege mentality in Russia, which it used to justify decades of bloody repression.”
A. Denis Clift
Golden Life Member
