Gary E. Weir

This book is the first to analyze the partnership between the Navy, industry, and science forged by World War II and responsible for producing submarines in the United States in the period from 1940 through 1961. The naval-industrial complex was not the result of a single historical event. Neither was it a political-economic entity. Instead it was made up of many unique and distinct components, all of which developed simultaneously; each reflected the development, significance, and construction of a particular vessel or technology within its historical context. Together these components emerged from World War II as a network of distinct relationships linked together by the motives of national defense, mutual growth, and profit. None of the major players in the drama planned or predetermined the naval-industrial complex, and it did not conform to the views of any individual or confirm the value of a particular system of management. Instead it grew naturally in response to the political environment, strategic circumstances, and perceived national need, its character defined gradually not only by the demands of international conflict but also by the scores of talented people interested in the problems and possibilities of submarine warfare. Their combined efforts during this short period of time produced remarkable advances in nuclear propulsion, submerged speed, quieting, underwater sound, and weaponry, as well as a greater appreciation within the Navy and the shipbuilding industry for the ocean environment.This book won the Roosevelt Prize for naval history.

The Naval-industrial Complex and American Submarine Construction, 1940-1961

Forged in War

Building American Submarines, 1914-1940

Walter J. Boyne

"For devotees of the submarine espionage stories in Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War. For the first time, seven Soviet admir"

The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines that Fought the Cold War

Rising Tide

Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.S. Navy and American ocean scientists drew ever closer, converting an early marriage of necessity into a relationship of astonishing achievement. Beginning in 1919, Gary Weir's An Ocean in Common traces the first forty-two years of their joint quest to understand each other and the deep ocean. Early in the twentieth century, American naval officers questioned the tactical and strategic significance of applied ocean science, demonstrating the gap between this kind of knowledge and that deemed critical to naval warfare. At the same time, scientists studying the ocean labored in their inadequately funded, discreet disciplines, seemingly content to keep naval warfare at arm's length. German U-boat success in World War I changed these views fundamentally, bringing ocean science insights to an increasing number of naval objectives. Driven primarily by anti-submarine priorities, the physics, chemistry, and geology of the ocean, more than its biology, became the early focus of American ocean studies. The World War II experience solidified the Navy's relationship with ocean scientists, and the years after 1945 found the American military investing heavily in both applied and basic research. Today, oceanography is a permanent resident on the bridge of American fighting ships and the Navy continues to provide much of the impetus and funding for fundamental research, in both naval and civilian laboratories. In An Ocean in Common Gary Weir focuses on the compelling motives and carefully engineered course that brought scientists and naval officers together, across a considerable cultural divide, to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of one another and the world ocean. Weir details how this alliance laid the powerful multidisciplinary foundation for long-range ocean communication and surveillance, modern submarine warfare, deep submergence, and the emergence of oceanography and ocean engineering as independent and vital fields of study.

American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment

An Ocean in Common

Michael J. Sulick

Robert M. Clark

Douglas L. Wheeler

James B. Bruce

John F. Sullivan

Thomas Fingar

Stewart A. Baker

Philip Mudd

Rose Mary Sheldon

Michael Fredholm

Edward F. Mickolus

Elbridge Colby

Stefania Paladini

Michael S. Goodman

Jan Goldman

Edward Mozley Roche

Mark M. Lowenthal

David L. Charney

Peter C. Oleson

Joshua M. Bart

Eleni C. Braat

Ronald L. Burgess, Jr.

Stephen H. Campbell

Jonathan D. Clemente

José Medina González Dávila

Lawrence D. Dietz

Robert E. Dupré

Huw Dylan

Rowena Rege Fischer

Jennifer H. Fisher

Carl W. Ford, Jr.

Arthur E. Gerringer

Tobias T. Gibson

Edward J. Glantz

Karl O. Haigler

Philippe Hayez

Jan P. Herring

G. Philip Hughes

John Alan Irvin

Stéphane J. Lefebvre

Jeremy Jez Littlewood

N. John MacGaffin, 3rd

Stephen Patrick Marrin

Hedwige Regnault de Maulmin

Robert A. McDonald

John J. McGonagle, Jr.

Robert A. Mirabello

William M. Nolte

Robert A. Norton

Mirielle M. Petitjean

Samuel Eugene Poteat

Douglas R. Price

Robert W. Pringle

Frederick W. Rustmann, Jr.

Ernesto J. Sanchez

John R. Sano

Florian Schaurer

Robert Anthony Smith

Thomas R. Spencer, Jr.

William C. Spracher

James E. Steiner

Jan Störger

Mark E. Stout

Adam D. M. Svendsen

Michelle K. Van Cleave

Carl Anthony Wege

Jon A. Wiant

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AFIO's Guide to the Study of Intelligence

For devotees of the submarine espionage stories in Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War. For the first time, seven Soviet admirals, along with leading naval historian Dr. Gary Weir, reveal the successful spying missions, the technological breakthroughs, the confrontations with U.S. forces, and the undersea disasters that killed many hundreds of sailors.With decades of experience on submarines or commanding submarine fleets, these seven senior admirals, many highly decorated, give us the inside stories. They detail the undersea successes such as the blockade of the U.S. submarine base in Bangor, Washington, and the innovative surveillance techniques they developed to trail the U.S. Sixth fleet in the Mediterranean. They reveal the development of the first nuclear submarines, profiling Dr. Peregudov, the father of the Soviet nuclear submarine and the internecine battles among Soviet bureaucrats that led to the deaths of many Russian sailors. And they give first hand accounts of deadly confrontations, such as the sinking of K-219, off Bermuda and the collision of USS Taurog and the Soviet K-108, including unpublished photos of the incident's aftermath. Rising Tide also reveals the many catastrophes and the occasional heroic rescues, and answers many questions surrounding the sensational loss of the Kursk, the most advanced vessel in the Russian fleet.Covering submarines from the first advanced diesel subs in the 1950s to the Kursk in 2000, with the authority only senior naval officials could deliver, Rising Tide is the complete story of the Soviet side of the gripping, secret life of the submariners in the Cold War.

The Untold Story Of The Russian Submarines That Fought The Cold War

Gary E. Weir

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