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The Lack of German Naval Power (United States News, 1946)

Not only did Germany limit the size of her fleet, but she failed to push technical developments. For example, she was behind the Allies in developing radar, and her torpedoes were mechanically deficient. She was ahead of the Allies in perfecting magnetic mines, but these proved to be a short-lived advantage… The priority for naval construction was so low that when the war began in September, 1939, the naval strength allowed in the treaty of 1935 had not been reached.

Thus, in the opinion of Admiral Doenitz, Germany, for the second time within 25 years, lost her bid for world supremacy because of her weakness at sea.


Click here to read about an American destroyer on D-Day.

‘No More Wars In Asia” (United States News, 1954)

Ridgway wants no repetition of the Korean experience. If the U.S. is to fight in Asia again, he wants an army equal to the task and free to win. And, until his Army is capable of undertaking the job, he opposes even limited action by air or sea forces. The General disagrees with those who hold that a war can be won by air or sea power alone.

The Army Restrained (U.S. News & World Report, 1954)

Sitting before a senate committee convened in order to understand what went wrong in Korea, Lieutenant General Edward M. Almond (1892 – 1979), U.S. Army, was not shy to point out that it was the the back-seat drivers in Washington who interfered in their ability to fight the war.


Senator Welker: Could we have won the war in 1951…?


General Almond: I think so.


General Matthew Ridgway experienced the same frustration – click here to read about it.

The Twilight of the New Deal (United States News and World Report, 1946)

The crusading spirit that Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to summon up in the minds of Government employees at the outset of his first administration, and again in the years that followed, now is vanishing. The spirit and imagination of Mr. Roosevelt brought into public service would not have been there.

It was this quality that captured the enthusiasm of engineers like J.A. Krug; of lawyers like Oscar S. Cox, Ben Cohen and Thomas Corcoran; of economists like Robert Nathan, Launchlin Curie, Leon Henderson and Isadore Lubin.

Military Choices (U.S. News & World Report, 1965)

Events are moving now toward a military showdown in Vietnam – with a decision to be made by combat.

The question at this time is whether the coming crisis will be resolved in South, middle or North Vietnam. As the showdown approaches, the U.S. finds itself involved in three forms of war in Southeast Asia:


• An anti-guerrilla war in southern South Vietnam.


• A base-defense war in northern South Vietnam.


• An anti-logistics war in southern North Vietnam.


The military man who penned this article weighs all these scenarios and also discusses the nuclear option.

The Road to Pearl Harbor (United States News, 1945)

It now becomes apparent that the U.S. Government, long before Pearl Harbor, knew Tokyo’s war plans almost as thoroughly as did the Japanese. To all practical purposes, Washington had ears attuned to the most intimate, secret sessions of Japan’s cabinet.


A year and a half before the Pearl Harbor attack, Naval Intelligence sold a Japanese agent some bogus plans of the naval installation – more about this can be read here.

The Un-Secret Secrets (United States News, 1945)

To get a sense as to how thoroughly the Japanese diplomatic codes had been compromised, we recommend that you read the attached article. It is composed entirely of the chit-chat that took place between the government functionaries in Tokyo, their diplomats in Washington, their spies in Hawaii and their representatives in Berlin.


The article winds up explaining that the one vital communication that contained the information regarding the day of Japan’s attack was not translated until December 8.

Our French Inheritance (United States News, 1954)

The U.S. is going to shoulder the job of saving what is left of Indo-China from the Communists…Congress is unlikely to approve additional funds. South Vietnam isn’t a good-enough risk to be worth much bigger American investment. Everything may go down the drain in 19 months.

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