Who Is The Enemy?

By Lieutenant Ralph L. Enos, USN
November 1960
We are used to considering the threat of the Soviet Union primarily as a military one. Increasingly, however, it appears that the Soviets have been mounting a new threat to ...

Danger From Below

By Lieutenant Colonel Marc E. Geneste, French Army
November 1960
It may be that this should not be written on foreign soil in a foreign language, but, after three stays in this country—for many reasons—I feel at home here.1 The ...

Killing Nuclear Submarines

By Commander George P. Steele, USN
November 1960
Enough is now known about the performance of the nuclear-powered submarine at sea to indicate a review of the changes that must come about in the navies of the world ...

Reappraisal Is Not So Agonizing

By Lieutenant Alfred C. Leis, USN
November 1960
The concept of the generalist line officer is well embedded in naval officer administrative policies. Looking at the history of the operating forces, the line officer has readily been able ...

A Modern Navy For Modern Defense

By Lieutenant Commander Edgar K. Lofton, USN
November 1960
The Navy’s officer-specialist structure has come in for quite a bit of discussion recently. It is generally agreed, it seems, that the advance of technology in the Navy is creating ...

Prince Henry The Navigator

By Winston B. Lewis
November 1960
Last August, ships of the U. S. Navy joined vessels from all over the world in a great naval parade off Cape St. Vincent, the Sagres of the fifteenth century ...

Today's Polish Navy - Its Significance In The Baltic

By Lieutenant Commander Andrew P. Guzowski, Former Polish Navy
November 1960
In all probability, the latest issue of Jane’s Fighting Ships presents a fairly accurate picture of the actual strength of the Polish Navy. One must remember, however, that despite its ...

The Naval Battalion on Bataan

By Colonel William F. Prickett, USMC
November 1960
Every American has heard of Douglas MacArthur, but not one in a thousand has heard of Francis J. Bridget. It is doubtful if the General himself ever heard of Bridget ...

Military Decision And The Future Of Sea Power

By Captain W. D. Brinckloe, USN
November 1960
Military Decision and the Future of Sea PowerThe impossibility of pre-testing major deterrent systems has led to an alarming tendency to base military choices on theoretical studies by civilian ...

Midway Today (Pictorial)

By D. B. Mauldin, AMC, USN
November 1960
Midway Island will never be forgotten, for it was near here that the epic battle by the same name was fought. Commencing on 4 June 1942, the U. S. and ...

Comment and Discussion

November 1960
This html article is produced from an uncorrected text file through optical character recognition. Prior to 1940 articles all text has been corrected, but from 1940 to the present most ...

Book Reviews

November 1960
Surface at the Pole*By Commander James Calvert, USN. New York, N. Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Illus­trated. 224 pages. $4.75.REVIEWED BYLieutenant Commander Louis T. Urbanczyk, Jr., USNOne fall night in 1959 ...

Professional Notes

Edited by Captain Harry B. Hahn, U. S. Navy
November 1960
SHIPS OF THE SIXTIESBy Lieutenant Commander Edmund L. Castillo, USN, Head, News Branch, Office of InformationAnyone who studies the Navy’s shipbuild­ing and conversion programs for fiscal years 1960 ...

USS Dunderberg - Old Thundering Mountain

By Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Rankin, USMC
November 1960
USS Dunderberg was her name, a rather odd name, but nevertheless one which was entirely appropriate in view of the size and armament of the vessel. Eventually she received an ...

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