Naval War College (U.S.). School of Naval Command and Staff

A group research study that assessed the impact of the Naval Command and Staff education upon graduates and their subsequent duty performances. An attempt was also made to evaluate the Naval Command and Staff education in comparison with alternative duty assignments.

Student paper written by Lieutenant Commander Harry William Benter, Jr, USN in which he examined the nature of literary dissent within the Soviet Union since the death of Stalin and the regime's efforts to repress, control, and use dissent for its own ends.

A group research study paper by Commander Jerome R. Dunn, USN; Lieutenant Commander Robert C. Loomis, Jr., USN; Lieutenant Commander Robert B. Pemberton, USN; and Lieutenant Commander Ervine E. White, USN. This paper studied the potential requirement for continuing naval warfare activity on international waterways; U.S. security interests, commitments, general force planning and military assistance policy trends relating to areas of high susceptibility to insurgency on internal waterways; an historical assessment of U.S. and contemporary experiences in internal water warfare; and presented U.S. programs and policies for internal water naval operations and recommendations for improvements to the programs.

A group research study that concentrated on the Command and Staff Course of the Naval War College and addressed two questions: (1) What should the product of the School of Naval Command and Staff be in terms of acquired skills and knowledge; and (2) How many graduates having the aforementioned skills and knowledge are required annually? The purpose of this study was to identify the product of the Naval Command and Staff school and conduct a billet analysis to determine Navy requirements for graduates in order to provide a basis for a critical analysis of the school and its curriculum to produce the necessary graduates in sufficient quantity and quality to satisfy the Navy's requirements.

Group study for the School of Naval Command and Staff.

Student paper by Lieutenant Commander Denis T. Schwaab, USN in which he stated that there is a likelihood that the United States could be forced to face wars of national liberation in its fight against Communism and because of that the U.S. needed a weapons sustem that has significant force and capable of extreme selectivity. The author argued that the attack carrier was the anser to the dilemma that may face the country.

Student paper by CDR William J. Scott, DC, USN for his course in the School of Naval Command and Staff and the Naval War College. This paper dealt with the problem of determining one's deep water capabilities as a free diver and the importance to the Navy to this role.

Student paper by LCDR Richard M. Scruggs, USN in which he discussed how Rhodesia's (present day Zimbabwe) unilateral declaration of independence in 1965 Nov created a dilemma in the formulation of United States foreign policy with that county. In this paper, he proclaimed that the U.S.'s policy, aimed at toppling the Smith government through economic warfare, served no one and had been unsuccessful. Instead, he contended that the U.S. should adopt a new and positive policy in seeking its objectives in Rhodesia.

Please note that the "Abstract" page ii was not found with this student paper.