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Sadness and Hope: Some Thoughts on Modern Warfare
The Admiral Raymond A. Spruance lecture, honoring a great naval leader of World War Il and past President of the Naval War College, is an annual lecture in a series sponsored by the Naval War College Foundation
The Naval Officer in an Age of Revolution
In greeting the many distinguished guests who are here tonight, I want to say a word of special greetings to a man without whose work neither I, nor anybody who writes on World War II, would be able to function. I am proud that among those present is the great historian Samuel Eliot Morison
The Naval Officer in an Age of Revolution
In the first of the Spruance Lecture Series, and the initial lecture delivered in the college\u27s newly dedicated Spruance Hall, Mr. Herman Wouk presents a timely and fascinating perspective on the revolutionary changes affecting our world. To be effective in his profession, the naval officer must posses an understanding of the social forces that have molded contemporary society
Sadness & Hope
This is my second Spruance Lecture. Should I be flattered? I hope I did such a hell of a job seven years ago that I\u27ve been called back for an encore though a wicked whisper suggest that possible I said so lamentably little last time that nobody remembers I\u27ve already spoken here