Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's swimming team captured its fifth consecutive Eastern Seaboard Swimming Championship at the U.S. Naval Academy this weekend, outdistancing its nearest rival by 110 points...
...rather than the reverse. Critics cite Navy Secretary Lehman's goal of building a 600-ship Navy. "What is termed strategy is a mere collection of justifications for more ships," says Steven Canby in his paper Military Reform and the Art of War. At the core of the naval building plan are two new $3.5 billion nuclear aircraft carriers, the heart's desire of every admiral, and the supporting ships they require. Advances in missile warfare make these surface ships far more vulnerable. Retired Admiral Hyman Rickover has estimated that carriers would survive only two days...
Just like "Pug" Henry, the fictional naval officer in Herman Wouk's The Winds of War, Al Wedemeyer secretly met at 10 Downing Street with Churchill and in the White House with Roosevelt. Wedemeyer felt Roosevelt's demand for unconditional surrender in 1943 was a grave error, compelling Germany, which might have turned against Hitler, to fight to the bitter end. Wedemeyer's closest friend from the Kriegsakademie was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who planted the bomb that nearly killed Hitler...
...trouble spots of the Middle East, the only one that offered Washington solace was Libya. A week earlier the U.S. had dispatched air and naval units to the eastern Mediterranean in the face of reports that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was about to attack Sudan or Chad. U.S. pilots were under orders to follow any Libyan aircraft that attacked their planes "back to the hangars," meaning that they should bomb the airfields from which the Libyan planes had taken off. But the crisis receded as quickly as it had arisen, leading Shultz to declare that "at least...
...gunning for a fifth consecutive Eastern Seaboard Championship is a depleted squad surpasses the most complete understatement. But competing without the services a head coach, a captain and potential All-American, and a University record-holding sprinter, the Crimson has jumped to a 64 point lead at the U.S. Naval Acadamy, site of this year's competition...