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By Bill Fawcett
An engrossing compendium of high-seas army disasters
From the times of the Spanish Armada to the trendy age of airplane vendors, battles were bungled simply as badly on water as they've been on land. a few mistakes have been the results of inadequate making plans, overinflated egos, espionage, or miscalculations; others have been brought on by principles that didn't carry water within the first position. In wonderful aspect, listed here are thirty-three of history's worst maritime mishaps, including:
* The British Royal Navy's inaccurate makes an attempt to play it secure throughout the American Revolution
* the quick existence and loss of life of the Imperial jap Navy
* The scuttling of the Graf Spee via a much inferior force
* The sinking of the Nazi megaship Bismarck
* "Remember the Maine!"—the lies that began the Spanish-American conflict Admiral Nelson wasting tune of Napoleon yet redeeming himself on the Nile
* The ANZAC catastrophe at Gallipoli Germany's failed WWII crusade within the North Atlantic Kennedy's quarantine of Cuba
Chock-full of fantastic proof and hilarious minutiae, the right way to Lose a warfare at Sea is the main entire quantity of nautical mess ups ever assembled.
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For a review of the aid program in South Vietnam, see John D. Montgomery, Tire Politics of Foreign Aid (New York : Frederick A . Praeger, 1962), pp. 224- 32. 16 The French Legacy in Indochina, 1945- 1960 cast statio ns throughout South Vietnam . S. Info rmatio n Service was already broadcasting the Voice·of America to North Vietnam fro m its station in the Philippines, the American ambassador deferred building a high-powered transmitter for broadcasting to North Vietnam until after the domestic network was completed .
Map 1) Some $27 million was to come fro m a State Department-administered Asian Economic Develo pment Fund and $3 million fro m the Department of Defense . The Internatio nal Cooperation Administration, the age ncy that operated foreign assistance programs for the State Department, was to oversee the installation of the project. Unacquainted with communications requirements or the env ironment in Southeast Asia, the International Cooperatio n Administration negotiated a contrac t based on a vag ue pro posal with two American co mpanies, Page Communications Engineers and Hyco n Eastern Company, to do an eng ineering survey for the regional system .
S. Army, Pacific, General Isaac D. White, asked the Army's Chief of Staff, General George H . Decker, to assign a signal company to the Pacific to install communications for a task force headquarters in Southeast Asia should SEATO operatio ns plans be invoked . General Decker responded that a strictl y enforced ceiling o n the size of the Army and commitment of the strategic reserve to other areas of the world ruled o ut even such a small reinforcement in the Pacific. In the canon of world wide American strategic prio rities South Vietnam seemed destined to remain a minor front of the Cold WaL ' Early Contingency Plans merican military assistance in Southeast Asia began at a time when the A United States was preoccupied w ith a conventio nal war in Korea and was resisting the Communists by French proxy in Indochina.