The United States Navy and Defense Unification, 1947-1953University of Delaware Press, 1981 - 367 頁 This book provides a historical background to the problems met during the early days of defense unification of the three U.S. military services: the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force. The author analyzes the problem of unification during both peacetime and wartime, showing how the Korean War served to point up the capabilities and limitations of the three services. |
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Strategies Missions and Defense Budgets Fiscal Years 1948 and 1949 | 54 |
The Defense Budget for Fiscal Year 1950 First Steps | 88 |
Defense Reorganization Plans the Defense Budget for Fiscal Year 1950 and the Resignation of James V Forrestal | 100 |
Louis A Johnson Scrapping of the Supercarrier and the Resignation of John L Sullivan | 126 |
The Naval Administration of Francis B Matthews | 147 |
The Rowboat Secretary the Defense Budget for Fiscal Year 1950 and Defense Reorganization | 149 |
Korea Fighting with One Arm Tied September 1950September 1951 | 251 |
The Naval Administration of Dan Able Kimball | 271 |
Unification and Korea | 273 |
The Naval Administration of Robert B Anderson | 295 |
Korea Calls for Changes | 297 |
The Price of Unification | 318 |
Conclusion | 329 |
Essay on Sources | 344 |
The Revolt of the Admirals | 169 |
The Firing of Louis E Denfeld and the Advent of Forrest Sherman | 207 |
Korea Time of Testing June 1950September 1950 | 229 |
Index | 362 |
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第 20 頁 - Council — (1) to assess and appraise the «objectives, commitments, and risks of the United States in relation to our actual and potential military power, in the interest of national security...
第 262 頁 - Staff, this strategy would involve us in the' wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy.
第 177 頁 - I sincerely believe that to be the case— any step that is not good for the Navy is not good for the nation.
第 327 頁 - Defense determines it will be advantageous to the Government in terms of effectiveness, economy, or efficiency, he shall provide for the carrying out of any supply or service activity common to more than one military department by a single agency or such other organizational entities as he deems appropriate. For the purposes of this paragraph, any supply or service activity common to more than one military department shall not be considered a 'major combatant function' within the meaning of paragraph...
第 177 頁 - The morale of the navy is lower today than at any time since I entered the commissioned ranks in 1916.
第 60 頁 - Forrestal just a couple of weeks before, "we are playing with fire while we have nothing with which to put it out.
第 231 頁 - Now the Pacific has become an Anglo-Saxon lake and our line of defense runs through the chain of islands fringing the coast of Asia. It starts from the Philippines and continues through the Ryukyu Archipelago, which includes its main bastion, Okinawa. Then it bends back through Japan and the Aleutian Island chain to Alaska.
第 177 頁 - ... concern was expressed that implementation of the plan would have a serious impact on the integrity of the Navy and on the preservation of seapower. Such was the concern of Fleet Admiral King, who declared: "I am apprehensive that such an organization would permit reduction in maintenance and use of our sea power by individuals who are not thoroughly familiar with its potentialities, as has happened in several other countries."42
第 67 頁 - ... it is intended that an individual service is to be permitted to carry through the development stage any material improvement program or new weapon development program considered by that service to be essential in the interest of increased effectiveness of its weapons, material, or equipment. The ultimate application and utilization of the product of such a development program shall, of course, be subject to the examination and recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the basis of its contribution...