A graduate of the Naval Academy in the Class of 1923, Admiral Ageton has been a regular contributor to the Proceedings. He is particularly well known for his work in navigation, H.O. 211 (Dead Reckoning, Altitude and Azimuth Table) being simply referred to as “Ageton” by many a navigator the world round. He is also the author of The Naval Officer’s Guide, well known to reserve officers of World War II, the newly revised edition of which will contain the article here published.

Articles by Arthur A. Ageton

The Cold War and Cultural Exchange

By Admiral W. H. Standley, USN (Ret.) and Rear Admiral A. A. Ageton, USN (Ret.)
December 1962
The efforts of Admiral Standley, our World War II Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., to obtain any real co-operation from the Russians were, he reports, as frustrating and foredoomed to failure ...

Winston Churchill And The Second Front

By Admiral William H. Standley, U. S. Navy (Retired) with Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired)
November 1953
The invasion of the continent of Europe somewhere in Northern France, which later came to be known as establishing the Second Front, was first demanded, to my certain knowledge, as ...

The Dilemma of Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov

By Admiral William H. Standley, U. S. Navy (Retired) with Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired
September 1953
Some years ago, Paul Winterton, onetime Moscow correspondent for the London News Chronicle, wrote, “There are no experts on the Soviet Union; there are only varying degrees of ignorance.” ...

Murder, Or High Strategy?

By Admiral William H. Standley, U. S. Navy (Retired) with Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired)
October 1952
The U. S. Embassy, the Kremlin, and the Katyn Forest Massacre

Are The Lessons Of History No Longer Valid?

By Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1952
It was September 5, 1885. As the commission pennant came down on the Wachusett at Mare Island, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan stood at the turning point of his life. He ...

The Gage And The Measure*

By Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired)
April 1951
The Main Stream of History In the recent modern history of mankind, a well defined stream of history can be clearly discerned. It flows from the supremely authoritative feudalism of ...