Russia Fights Another Cold War

By Rodger L. Simons
September 1954
Reactions varying from smiles of tolerant patience to outbursts of righteous indignation greet Russia’s frequent announcements that various of the great scientific achievements of other lands had, in purported reality ...

The Vanishing American Naval Officer*

By Rear Admiral Albert E. Jarrell, U. S. Navy
September 1954
It was late summer in 1927. The destroyer Pruitt was riding to her anchor off Chefoo, a port of many smells, which was our base for summer gunnery exercises. A ...

Battle of the Caribbean

By Commander C. Alphonso Smith, U. S. Naval Reserve
September 1954
The Battle of the Caribbean lasted nine and a half months—from February 16, 1942, to November 30, 1942. In that comparatively brief time, German submarines torpedoed 263 ships in the ...

The Naval Academy Crew Sixty Years Ago

By H. S. Kimball
September 1954
The guiding spirit in the revival of rowing at the Naval Academy was America's Winston Churchill. That was sixty years ago, when Naval Cadet Churchill, later to become one of ...

The Citizen And His Navy

By Commander A. T. Church, Jr., U. S. Navy
September 1954
I The American people have demonstrated great and lasting faith in the United States Navy. They have held this faith since the days of our Revolution, despite radical changes in ...

The Measure of Security

By Major Reginald Hargreaves, M.C.
September 1954
“Force and fraud,” wrote Thomas M Hobbes in 1651, “are in war the two cardinal virtues.” If fraud be accepted as including those measures of deception taken by Security to ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

September 1954
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Book Reviews

September 1954
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Professional Notes

September 1954
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