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Appendix D. Directors of U.S. Naval Communications 1912-1942Appendix E.U.S. Naval Attachés in Tokyo, 1914-1941; Appendix F.U.S. Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Section "OP-20-G" and Its Antecedents; Appendix G. Officers in Charge, Office of Naval Communications, Code and Signal Section, "Research Desk" (OP-20-GX); Appendix H. Officers in Charge, Office of Naval Communications, Code and Signal Section, Translation Section (OP-20-GZ); Appendix I. Growth of U.S. Navy Radio Intelligence; Appendix J.U.S. Naval Radio Intelligence, Primarily Focused upon Japan, as of December 1941.

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Steam power was a crucial factor in the reconstruction of the Spanish navy in the mid-nineteenth century. Army requirements for strategic mobility, together with the debate over the relative proportion of steam to sailing ships and the condition of the dockyards, drove the naval policy of this period. However, a weak treasury meant that the government was willing to spend substantially on the navy only in a national crisis, while political instability and internal opposition further hampered the successful implementation of the naval programmes. Nevertheless, the number of steamers was increased considerably and the screw propeller was introduced.

Dickinson reviews MAKING WAVES: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 by J. Charles Schencking.

To help the U.S. Navy understand how near-, mid-, and far-term trends in the United States, China, and Iran might influence its investments, RAND examined emerging domestic and regional nonmilitary trends in each of the three countries.--Publisher description

Of the thousands of military officers on active duty, only those who have served in Washington, D.C., since 1961 have had the opportunity for direct involvement in the Department of Defense (DOD) Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS), And of these only a relatively few have become intimately associated with all aspects of the multifaceted system that manages DOD's resources, Today PPBS serves as the raison d'etre justifying the bulk of the military billets in the Washington D.C., area.