Books Highlight Navy Culture and Vietnam Medics, Terrorism in Beirut

摘要

Navy veterans are familiar with the light-hearted aphorism that there is "the right way, the wrong way and the Navy way" of doing things. On a more serious take, there is a distinct Navy culture that has evolved over centuries of operations and warfare at sea that molds independent leaders and promotes self-reliance and innovative problem-solving. Roger Barnett, a retired Navy captain and professor emeritus of the Naval War College, shows how that culture, despite the interconnection of global communications and increasingly joint operations, maintains an independent mindset in an unforgiving environment. The author shows how Navy culture is expeditionary to the core and how it affects the strategic thinking of its leaders. He also warns against the effects of introducing destabilizing social engineering by those who do not understand the culture of the mariner.