Joseph WYLIE

Rear Admiral Joseph Caldwell Wylie, Jr., USN was born March 3, 1911 and died on January 29, 1993 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Articles by Joseph WYLIE

Captain Hoover: Right or Wrong?

By Rear Admiral J. C. Wylie, U.S. Navy (Retired)

December 1992

I think Captain Hoover made the most difficult — and the most courageous —combat decision I have ever known.

Why A Sailor Thinks Like A Sailor

By Captain J. C. Wylie, U. S. Navy

August 1957

Every autumn there is a series of internal crises in the Navy Department, growing in intensity until finally the annual budget requests take shape. During the winter the Department of ...

The Calculation of Risk

By Captain J. C. Wylie, Jr., U. S. Navy

July 1953

There are occasions when rational analysis and the formal estimate of the situation will not produce the answer that we feel in our bones is the right one. Then we ...