THE  HUNT  FOR RED  OCTOBER By Tom Clancy, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, October 1984 394pp illus. The novel, The Hunt for Red October is must…

UNIDENTIFIED  AUTHORS  OF  SUBMARINE  REVIEW  ARTICLES The Review’s practice of disguising authors by initials or, worse, the antideluvian stunt of using            mythical noms-de-plumes,whichwas fashionable in…

On Bill Buckley’s TV Program “Firing Line,” 24 June, the Science Advisor to the President Dr. George Keyworth, noted that the Soviets also had supersonic…

DYNAMIC CONCENTRATION The “Laws of Lanchester” state that the power of combat force varies with the square of the number of units in the force.…

John Keegan in his book Face of Battle describes the preparation for and the initial results achieved by the British in the Battle of the…

Man has established anniversaries to remind us of things past both good and bad. Through this method we can celebrate the good and recall the…

An enemy mine is basically a psychological weapon. Amid an atmosphere of billion dollar high tech weaponry the underrated or ignored mine can wreak havoc…

There have been many  challenges to  our nuclear submarine program, along with the recommendation to go back to building diesel submarines. Having commanded a diesel…

This would have been written now whether or not Captain Bill Houley’ s summary of changes in the Submarine School curricula had appeared in the…

The   Soviet Union is clearly  the most  active submarine producing nation in the world. It is building new submarines at a rate more than twice…