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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: July 2014
July 1, 2014
Have you ever wondered why it is that some individuals seem to be almost innately curious about the study of history? I vividly recall my mentor at the University of Washington, Professor Wilton B. Fowler, saying at the beginning of his course on U.S. Diplomatic History, “History is both my vocation and my avocation!” For … CONTINUE READING ❯
Naval History and Heroes: The Influence of U.S. and British Navalism on Children’s Writing, 1895-1914
July 1, 2014
By Hazel Sheeky Bird Independent Scholar, Great Britain At the beginning of the twentieth century, a great number of navalist books were produced for children in Britain and America. [1. At present no substantial bibliographical source exists for British or American children’s navalist texts, and it is partly the aim of my ongoing research to … CONTINUE READING ❯
Strategic Logic of the American “Pivot to the Pacific”
July 1, 2014
William Kyle University of Mary Washington, Class of 2013 Five years of Obama administration foreign policy are now in the history books as we continue to move beyond the Global War on Terror era. While the jury is still out regarding the ultimate impact of this administration’s re-direction of American foreign policy, its initiatives are … CONTINUE READING ❯
Learning to Fail: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century from the Pacific War
July 1, 2014
Brent Powers Lieutenant, U.S. Navy Introduction Figure 1: Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, has charged his officers with thinking about how they will show up to the next war and be lethal and dominant. Here he briefs the Pentagon press corps on America’s rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine … CONTINUE READING ❯
National History Day 2014 Documentary: “Vietnam POWs Taking Responsibility when Deprived of All Rights”
July 1, 2014
A National History Day documentary by Jethro Abatayo and Logan Gibert Pleasant Valley Middle School, Vancouver, WA Editor’s Note: Established in 1974, National History Day (NHD) is an award winning, non-profit education organization offering year-long academic programs that engage over 600,000 middle and high school students around the world annually in conducting original research on … CONTINUE READING ❯
Ships and Shipbuilders: Pioneers of Design and Construction
July 1, 2014
Published to coincide with the sesquicentennial of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Ships and Shipbuilders is a reference book that offers a fresh look at giants in the field of ship design and construction, while introducing new subjects for discussion. The work is arranged chronologically, ranging from Archimedes of Syracuse, continuing through the late-twentieth … CONTINUE READING ❯
Blue versus Orange: The U.S. Naval War College, Japan, and the Old Enemy in the Pacific, 1945-1946
July 1, 2014
The role of the United States Naval War College and the planning pursued prior to 1941 in anticipation of having to fight Japan have been surveyed previously. Hal Friedman takes our understanding, though, a step further and examines the style of Naval War College education in the immediate aftermath of the just concluded war. Along … CONTINUE READING ❯
“A” Force: The Origins of British Deception during the Second World War
July 1, 2014
The role of deception in Allied military operations has been surveyed in several previous monographs, but the contribution of “A” Force, the primary British organization responsible for this side of military operations in the Mediterranean theatre, has heretofore lacked its own accounting. Enter Whitney Bendeck to fill the void and who ably recounts how “A” … CONTINUE READING ❯