Chief of Naval Operations

It is with deep concern that I, as the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), need to engage you in a serious foreign affairs situation so early in your new presidency. You are fully aware of the overall concerns in Cuba from your security briefings, but I need to bring to your attention our uneasiness over Cuba and Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s forceful move towards communism. First, you know we were never pleased at Castro’s rise to power. Yet, although we were suspicious of his intentions,…

Naval Academy, Craig Symonds has proven the historical reliability of his work by the use of many resources, not only previous literature, but also interviews and military records, among other sources. His ability to explain the “culture that informed”…

During the fifth year of the Second World War (1944), the Allied forces were planning the blueprints for the largest naval, air, and infantry invasion in the history of the world. This offensive was deemed the codename “Operation Overlord,” better known to the public as The Battle of Normandy. There were three major Allied countries involved in the invasion of D-day: The United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America. The invasion would begin with a heavy bombardment of German-held…

Despite the alarming risk and the unethical means of creating this new and over the top soldiers, the SPARTAN-II project got the green light by the top members Office of Naval Intelligence. Who all agreed that the lives that could be saved greatly outweighed the risks involved during the recruitment and training process. The project was granted funding for seventy-five children, five and six years old and of both sexes, all were kidnapped under the cover of night. To keep this program's a secret…

the four branches of the United States Department of Defense. The USMC provides power from the sea and is also a Joint Chiefs of Staff member. I am a proud member of the US Marine Combat Veteran. Specifically, I was attached to the artillery unit in San Diego, Ca. as an ammunition technician. Further, during my four-year enlistment, I deployment to Afghanistan in the operation enduring freedom and it was a colorful experience. My short period with the USMC so far has made me adequately…

Lieutenant General. In addition, his personal dimensions eventually saw him further get promoted to the rank of General and appointed the Chief of the KDF, the highest rank of a commissioned officer within the Kenyan military. While some political leaders have argued that Kenya has lost many lives since invading the Al-Shabaab militias in Somalia,…

It was the operation plan designed by German, Alfred von Schlieffen in December 1905. The plan was planned for a designated attack on France once Russia would start mobilizing. Schlieffen stated France to be Germany’s most dangerous opponent. Schlieffen believed that…

hostilities.”(Burtness 2011) In Burtness’s Journal he states how the commanders would have to talk to each other, they stated how they did not understand each other’s messages, but instead decided to ignore them. Admiral Stark was the appointed Chief of Naval Operations, which the Judge talked in his rulings. In the Austrian Journal of Politics & History the author states “that Stark was a patriot who willingly sacrificed his reputation to preserve that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to…

The Tennessee National Guard Adjutant General visits with Troopers deployed to Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Oct. 19-20 on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “It was different than what I expected it to be,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Terry “Max” Haston, the Adjutant General for Tennessee National Guard. “It’s a world of its own. It’s stepping into a piece of history that most Americans don’t get the opportunity to see. Our Soldiers serving down here are very fortunate to have this…

the U.S. Navy during the early 1970s. The early 1970s was a very stressful time for the U.S. Navy. On top of the Vietnam War, social unrest in the United States started to affect the Navy as a whole more significantly. To make matter worse Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. had implanted some controversial personnel reforms in order to provide better opportunities for African Americans serving. Zumwalt was only one of a few high ranked officials to believe that the Navy had…