August 1964 Proceedings Magazine: United States Naval Institute

UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE Proceedings

VOLUME 90, NUMBER 8, WHOLE NO. 738

August, 1964

Front Cover: The nuclear-poweredcruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) is seen at full speed in this month's cover painting by C. G. Evers. For more about the ship and the painting, see pages 91-111 and page 130.

Clausewitz, Cuba and Command
By Paul R. Schratz, Capt., USN
The Wit to See
By M. Eckhart, Jr., Cdr., USN
Offensive Mining as a Soviet Strategy
By Charles W. Saar, Cdr., USN
Trieste—The First Ten Years
By George W. Martin, Lt., USN
The Restless Mind
By M. J. Travers, Cdr., USN
Diminishing Returns in the CVA
By John T. Henrizi, Lt., USN
Operation Forager
By Sherwood R. Zimmerman, Ens., USN
USS Long Beach (CGN-9) (Pictorial)
Comment and Discussion
Book Reviews
Professional Reading
Book List
Professional Notes
Notebook
Progress
Page from the Old Navy
Index to Advertisers
Secretary's Notes

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Board of Control,
PRESIDENT.
Admiral David L. McDonald, U. S. Navy
VICE PRESIDENT
Rear Admiral Charles S. Minter, Jr., U. S. Navy
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Commander R. T. E. Bowler, Jr., U. S. Navy (Retired)
DIRECTORS
Major General Henry W. Buse, Jr., U. S. Marine Corps
Rear Admiral Allen M. Shinn, U. S. Navy Rear Admiral William P. Mack, U. S. Navy Captain Robert W. McNitt, U. S. Navy Captain Edward L. Beach, U. S. Navy Captain William F. Cass, U. S. Coast Guard
Past Presidents
Admiral David D. Porter 1873
Rear Admiral John L. Worden 1874
Rear Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers 1875-78, 1882-83 Commodore Foxhall A. Parker 1878-79
Rear Admiral John Rodgers 1879-82
Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins 1883-85 Rear Admiral Edward Simpson 1885-87 Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce 1887-98 Rear Admiral Wm. T. Sampson 1898-1902
Rear Admiral H. C. Taylor 1902-1904 Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrich 1904-1909
Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright 1909-11 Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske 1911-23 Vice Admiral William L. Rodgers 1923-24 Admiral Henry B. Wilson 1924-26
Admiral Hilary P. Jones 1926-28
Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle 1928-29 Admiral S. S. Robison 1929-31
Rear Admiral M. L. Bristol 1931-33 Admiral William H. Standley 1933-35 Admiral David Foote Sellers 1935-37 Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy 1937-40 Admiral H. R. Stark 1940-42
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz 1942-43,1946-48 Fleet Admiral E. J. King 1943-46
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld 1948-50
Admiral Robert B. Carney 1950-52,1954-56 Admiral William M. Fechteler 1952-54 Admiral Arleigh A. Burke 1956-59,1960-61 Admiral Jerauld Wright 1959-60
Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. 1961-63