Re: OT: Battleships vs. Carriers...

Ryan M Gill wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Tom Anderson wrote:
>
> > the what? the proceedings of who? the only proceedings i'm aware of
are of
> > the national academy of sciences, which sounds unlikely to me.
>
> Proceendings is a Magazine that is geared for students of Bellicose
Naval
> sciences. It is published by US Naval Institute.

That's not true at all.  The Proceedings is a professional form that is
very
well respected in the militaries the world over.  It is unique because
there is
no oversight from the USN or any other military.  This means that ideas
get
printed in the Proceedings that would never printed in other journal
because of
dogma of doctrine and/or political correctness.  If the author of an
article
doesn't have his act together, he gets shredded in the Comment and
Discussion
section for the next several issues.  I know of several officers in the
US Army
who subscribe to the Proceedings, so it is geared to far more than
students of
bellicose naval sciences.

IAS

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