CONTENTS Acknowledgments The Naval Calling in the 1880's: New Threats and Old Problems The Old Man of the Sea The First Years The Uses of History A Sea of Troubles War Games and Wars of the Future From "War Problems" to War Plans Politics and Planning A New Generation Applying the "Science of Naval Warfare" Epilogue: The Long Twilight Notes Bibliography Index

"Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960" describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate postwar years, and the advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Its scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a background of relevant military and political developments. Useful not only as a study of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent of national policy, Ronald Spector's...