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The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy’s Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919
March 9, 2021
The Challenges of Command surveys the executive branch officer corps of the Royal Navy from the last part of the Nineteenth Century through the close of the First World War. In the process, Robert Davison focuses his analysis on the broader societal and technological setting of the period that acted upon the Royal Navy and … CONTINUE READING ❯
View from the Quarterdeck: August 2016
November 18, 2016
This issue of IJNH continues the practice of offering two permanent columns. One is designed to offer suggestions from our readers of potential titles you may wish to add to your own reading intentions. The list is eclectic, including not only interesting historical monographs, but also good fiction, and even a notable work of children’s … CONTINUE READING ❯
What Are They Reading? Vol. 2
November 18, 2016
This article is the second edition of our continuing series which allows readers of this journal who are interested in international naval history and related topics to share with colleagues ideas on good books to read which may be of general interest. Contributions are not intended to be full book reviews, rather simply suggestions for … CONTINUE READING ❯
View From the Quarterdeck: April 2016
May 26, 2016
Historians, and those interested in history, are readers. Thucydides anticipated this fact when he wrote his famous account of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the 5th Century BC. He said that his purpose in writing about this great war was to tell the story of events in what he anticipated would be … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Treatment of Survivors and Prisoners of War, at Sea and Ashore
May 26, 2016
Contents: Background Sinking and Capture USNOB Argentia Boston “Fiery Furnace” at Fort Hunt Reunion Dr. Philip K Lundeberg Curator Emeritus of Naval History, Smithsonian Institution Background On the eve of POW/MIA remembrance day, we may seek deeper understanding by beginning with a critical directive issued by the VCNO to all ships and stations on 19 … CONTINUE READING ❯
History of the Navy Laboratory System
May 26, 2016
Contents: Development of the Bureaus Changing the Organization The Director of Navy Laboratories (DNL) Changing the Processes Decline of the DNL References Robert V. Gates, Ph.D. U.S. Naval War College Abstract: The role of the federal government in science and technology has evolved since the founding of this nation. Likewise, the role of the Navy … CONTINUE READING ❯
Alfred and Theodore Go to Hawai’i: The Value of Hawai’i in the Maritime Strategic Thought of Alfred Thayer Mahan
May 26, 2016
The Royal Military College of Canada “… [W]ithout some such governmental care as is implied by an organized institution, it is vain to hope for the development of the art of naval war.” – Alfred Thayer Mahan, Captain, U.S.N. ((Alfred Thayer Mahan (President, US Naval War College) to the Secretary of the Naval Institute, 27 … CONTINUE READING ❯
What Are They Reading? Vol. 1
May 26, 2016
Historians are fundamentally readers. The difficult question is how one selects what to read in the limited amount of time available. Book reviews of all kinds help us decide. So, to, do recommendations such as the U.S. Navy’s Professional Reading Program or the Professional Reading List of the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. … CONTINUE READING ❯