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"In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the USS Pueblo was poorly armed and lacked backup by air or sea. Its crew, led by a charismatic, hard-drinking ex-submarine officer named Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested sailors in their teens and twenties. On a frigid January morning while eavesdropping near the port of Wonsan, the Pueblo was challenged by a North Korean gunboat. When Bucher tried to escape, his ship was quickly surrounded by more patrol boats, shelled and machine-gunned, and forced to surrender. One American was killed and ten wounded, and Bucher and his young crew were taken prisoner by one of the world's most aggressive and erratic totalitarian regimes. Less than forty-eight hours before the Pueblo's capture, North Korean commandos had nearly succeeded in assassinating South Korea's president in downtown Seoul. Together, the two explosive incidents pushed Cold War tensions toward a flashpoint as both North and South Korea girded for war-with fifty thousand American soldiers caught between them. President Lyndon Johnson rushed U.S. combat ships and aircraft to reinforce South Korea, while secretly trying to negotiate a peaceful solution to the crisis. Act of War tells the riveting saga of Bucher and his men as they struggled to survive merciless torture and horrendous living conditions in North Korean prisons. Based on extensive interviews and numerous government documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, this book also reveals new details of Johnson's high-risk gambit to prevent war from erupting on the Korean peninsula while his negotiators desperately tried to save the sailors from possible execution. A dramatic tale of human endurance against the backdrop of an international diplomatic poker game, Act of War offers lessons on the perils of covert intelligence operations as America finds itself confronting a host of twenty-first-century enemies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword to the Paperback Edition ; Foreword ; Preface ; Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations ;
• 1. OPINTEL and Its Origins ;
• 2. The Postwar Years: Demobilization and Rebirth ;
• 3. The 1960s: Laying the Foundation for OSIS ;
• 4. OSIS Comes of Age: FOSIFs, FOSICs, and Fusion in the Electronic Age ;
• 5. ""High OPINTEL"" in the Era of the ""Maritime Strategy"" ;
• 6. Transition, Refocus, and the Future ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

This analytic and historical study provides a revealing look at naval operational intelligence by embracing the fundamental question of what OPINTEL is and how it answers the fundamental question ""Where is the enemy, in what strength, and disposition, and what is he doing right now?"" It is primarily the result of an Operational Intelligence Lessons-Learned Symposium held at the National Maritime Intelligence Training Center in Dam Neck, Virginia, 12-13 September 1998. The participants included senior intelligence professionals whose mandate was to explore the ramifications of the evolution of naval operational intelligence since World War II. Current practices were also explored with inputs from current practitioners as represented by various fleet and shore commands. Additional sources for the study were oral interviews and correspondence with senior members of the intelligence community. The authors have scrupulously taken the work as close to the edge of security classification as is possible to enhance its value without being damaging to national security.
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• v. 1. 1775-1913--
• v. 2. 1913-1972.

Autobiographical reminiscences of a retired naval officer from Bangladesh about his memories as a prisoners of war during 1971 liberation movement

Whenever sailors are confronted with ""unsolvable"" problems - be it a fouled anchor or paint that won't dry - they often throw up their hands and exclaim, ""We'd better ask the Chief"", that refrain, heard for generations throughout the Navy, is the theme this book. Written at sea, the book provides a compelling picture of the Chief Petty Officer's community in the U.S. Navy. As a guest of the Chief Petty Officer's mess aboard USS George Washington during Operation Enduring Freedom, Leahy was granted complete and unfettered access to all areas of the massive carrier and the other ships in her battle group. He interviewed nearly one hundred Navy Chiefs from the aviation, surface, submarine, and special warfare communities and recounts stories of their daily life at sea. In doing so, he presents the true backbone of the modern Navy: the wisdom, character, and dignity of the Chief Petty Officer's community. This book of contemporaneous oral history follows the format that proved so successful with Leahy's earlier book on Navy boot camp. Colour photographs help bring the story to life.
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• What is a chief petty officer?
• In the beginning
• Making chief
• Initiation
• The chief petty officers mess
• Chiefs and junior officers
• Mustangs
• Then and now
• Quality and leadership
• The command master chief petty officer
• The master chief petty officer of the Navy
• Modern leaders for a modern Navy
• In harm's way
• Chiefs are what chiefs do.