NATO—Keystone of Defense

By Admiral W. F. Boone, U.S. Navy
April 1959
On April 2, 1959, the Foreign Ministers of the fifteen countries comprising the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will assemble in our nation's capital. This meeting of the North Atlantic Council ...

Sword and Shield In Our Power Structure

By Anthony E. Sokol
April 1959
Since the atomic explosion at Hiroshima we have come to regard our nuclear capability as our main sword, the chief striking power behind our foreign policy, while we gradually relegated ...

The NATO ASW Situation

By Lieutenant Commander D. D. Lewis, USN
April 1959
One of these days Soviet Russia will unveil a nuclear-powered guided missile submarine. The NATO military experts then will have to sit down and figure out when the first will ...

Peary at the North Pole

By Hugh C. Mitchell
April 1959
On September 5, 1909, the steamer Roosevelt reached Indian Harbor in Labrador, and Robert E. Peary, a commander in the Civil Engineer Corps of the U. S. Navy, wired the ...

His Majesty's Stationary Sloop-Of-War

By Jac Weller and Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst
April 1959
A barren, uninhabited pinnacle of volcanic rock in the Caribbean was once commissioned a sloop-of-war in His Britannic Majesty’s Navy. For ten days in May and June of 1805, the ...

Modern Enlisted Personnel Distribution

By Captain B. H. Shupper, USN
April 1959
All naval officers, with the exception of a few who have been battered by experience, consider themselves experts on personnel matters. Those in command and operational billets in the fleets ...

The "Yankee Device"

By John Van Duyn Southworth
April 1959
Elmer Sperry, Jr., sat dejectedly in the easy chair of his London hotel room. It was the fall of 1914, and for more than two months Great Britain had been ...

Comment and Discussion

April 1959
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Book Reviews

April 1959
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Professional Notes

April 1959
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