US Naval Institute Proceedings - December 1984
Front Cover, U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Volume 110/12/982, December 1984. GGA Image ID # 1d04d10dfa
On the Front Cover
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) undergoes repairs at the Ship Repair Facility, Subic Bay, after a collision with a Soviet "Victor I" submarine. Photograph by LCDR C. J. Heatley III, U. S. Navy.
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30 Too Light on Lasers?
By Captain Alfred Skolnick, USN (Ret.)
If the Navy is ever to get laser beam directors into the fleet, it must not treat laser weapons development too lightly.
37 Planning for U. S. Security Interests
By Colin S. Gray
Long-range planning is unusually difficult for a country which, until last month, has been sweeping its policymakers out of office every four years.
44 The Computer Gap
By Lieutenant Commander Mark T. Brown, USN
If the Navy's tactical computers cannot talk to its nontactical ones, how effective can our national defense be?
50 Plan Orange Revisited
By Commander Michael W. Shelton, GEC, USN
There is a striking similarity between the way we are planning to
fight the Soviet Navy and the way we planned to fight Japan before Pearl Harbor.
57 I Was a Yeomanette
By Lou MacPherson Guthrie
Even as far back as World War I, Miss MacPherson and women like her knew they could serve their country as well as any sailor.
60 Womanpower in World War I By Susan H. Godson
66 Safeguarding the Sitting Ducks
By Lieutenant Commander T. J. McKearney, USN
If you're going to send a sitting duck into dangerous waters, you better be sure her flock has shared responsibilities.
Departments
The Old Navy 74
The Wright Stuff
Pictorial 77
Thar She Still Blows
Leadership Forum 90
Lucy and Linus in the
Wardroom
Nobody asked me, but 94
Human Realities and Myths Caffeine: Vise or Vice?
An OOD Underway Ribbon As I Recall 98
Z-Grams and the Mod Squad
Book Reviews 127
Conversations with the Enemy The Battle for Hue: Tet 1968 U. S. Naval Developments Warships of the U. S. Navy Tragic Deception
Amphibious Warfare Developments in Britain and America 1920-1940
Professional Notes 137
Two Languages in FitReps: Male and
The ABCs of Montijo
The Soviet Merchant Navy—
A Two-Pronged Force USCG: The Right Staff?
The U. S. Navy SES Program: An Update
Why Take a Flier?
The U. S. Navy and Nuclear ASW Weapons
Naval Nuclear Weapon Selection
Military Justice in 1984 Special 162
Tragedy of a Tall Ship
Other Departments
Secretary's Notes 9
Comment and Discussion .. 16
Books Books of Interest 135
Notebook 175
Index to Advertisers 176
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