The weak can be rash. The powerful must be restrained.– Secretary of State William Rogers, April 1969 For most of these past several weeks, international attention has been focused on the activities taking place near a peninsula on the north-east coast of Korea. There, despite protests and warnings from around the world, the…
In carrying out the task assigned … you will be governed by the principle of calculated risk, which you shall interpret to mean the avoidance of exposure of our forces without good prospect on inflicting, as a result of such exposure, greater damage on the enemy. — Extract from CINCPAC Operational Order to TF 17…
Fifth ship of the Essex class — fifth ship to bear Benjamin Franklin’s name… On the 19th of March, 1945, her crew would write a story for the ages as they were tested in the crucible. Today, like so many of their generation, the already small band of survivors of that day continue to dwindle….
The Board of Directors at the US Naval Institue (of which, full disclosure, I am a Life member) has evidently determined that the “mission statement” that has served the organization for 138 years is in need of an overhaul. Norman Polmar disagrees: I am writing to you–fellow members of the U.S. Naval Institute–to urge that…
After having spent the better part of a day re-visiting the National Museum of Naval Aviation, located onboard NAS Pensacola, there is much to post about – most good, but some others. For background, despite spending 26 years on active duty, when I left Pensacola for the E-2C replacement squadron (RVAW-120) in Norfolk, I would…
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the…
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Been DVRin’ the series Battle 360 about the “Big E,” which was a player…great series, bill footed by Enterprise Rent a Car…’coz the CEO was a Big E pilot back in those days…