July 1924 Proceedings—In “Adult Officer Education,” Navy Commander Willis W. Bradley Jr. argues for adoption of correspondence courses from the Naval War College and Naval Postgraduate School: “It has been proposed many times that the War College course be made an essential for high command, but this proposal has always been abandoned because of the manifest difficulty of giving every officer a chance to go to the War College. The same objection cannot be raised against correspondence instruction. Every officer can make the time for such work without any great hardship.”
July 1949 Proceedings—In “Dirigibles for Hemisphere Defense,” Lieutenant J. Gordon Vaeth, U.S. Naval Reserve, advocated for expanding the Navy’s dirigible fleet. He writes: “The task of detecting and countering an enemy who may be anywhere in the Arctic, Atlantic, or Pacific areas would be herculean. . . . The helium filled dirigible, serving as a long-range electronic sentinel, airborne early warning unit, antisubmarine craft, missile launching platform, meteorological station, and carrier of radar-equipped parasite jet planes . . . is basically a Navy weapon of global war and hemisphere defense.”
July 1974 Proceedings—In “The Military and the Media,” Navy Commander Jack M. White explains the changes the Naval War College was making under its new president, Vice Admiral Stansfield Turner, to prepare its students to understand and interact with the media. He writes: “The evidence of a deterioration in military-media relations indicated to Admiral Turner and the students that something had to be done to better prepare the students for the day when they would be thrust under the hot lights of public scrutiny and debate. . . . The admiral believed that one way to overcome the ill will was to bring the students into direct contact with the media. . . . While the conflict between the military and the media may be inevitable, he stated, it is possible to remain adversative while maintaining understanding and trust.”
