Paging all Submariners!

OK, all you submarine types - time to show your historical knowledge and laugh at the situation I am in. I, an Army O-4 who really wants to make O-5, have exactly one paper left in my ILE-CC...and for some odd reason, I have chosen the development of submarines in the inter-war years. So for all you underwater types, I have the following author's works to help me through the briny deep of 1918-1939 submarine development; Gary Weir, Wilbur Cross, John Terraine, Michael Gunton and Richard Compton-Hall. Any of these laughable, mediocre or really good authors?

Who/what else should I find?

Please leave your underwater wisdom in the comments.

re: generalship

I know I am late to the Yingling Babblefest - but besides the huge amount of play his bit is getting - I just don't see much there there. Nothing new or shocking - especially if you know a little military history have read Nagl's Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and Ricks' Fiasco.

The only meat I saw there was his discussion of GOFO reform - and that was after you had to plow through all the retro-fluffery above it.

His ideas on GOFO reform has spots of good ideas - but the core of it was rot. More Congressional influence on the senior officers? More political Generals & Admirals? Is that really what we want?

Now, if he wants to go after that Albatros of Goldwater-Nichols - well then we would have something!

On balance - yawn.

Generalship: Varsity Edition

While we've been discussing the circus, the professionals have been going back and forth about the new counterinsurgency manual. I've got a post at my place that shows the fight card.