Naval War College Review
Volume 53, Number 3 (2000) Summer
William S. Philips hopes that this painting conveys "the beauty and exhilaration of flight." Primarily, however, he intends it to honor "a great American hero" -James B. Stockdale, U.S. Navy, who in 1964 was in command of Fighter Squadron 51, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 5 on board USS Ticonderoga (CVA 14), pictured here (the slanting structure aft of the "island" is a folding antenna mast). In August of that year Commander Stockdale (whose F-8 Crusader is in the foreground, in a two-aircraft CAP, or combat air patrol, section) led the first U.S. air strikes into North Vietnam.
The next year by then commanding the air wing of USS Oriskany (CVA 34), Commander Stockdale would be shot down; finding himself the senior naval officer held by the North Vietnamese, he would display until his release in 1973 the leadership, courage, and "conspicuous gallantry… above and beyond the call of duty" that would earn him the Medal of Honor
Full Issue
Summer 2000 Full Issue
The U.S. Naval War College
President's Forum
President's Forum
Arthur K. Cebrowski
Whispers of Warriors
Ike Skelton
Articles
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Robert D. Critchlow
Boon or Threat?
Robert R. Tomes
The Battle of Midway: Why the Japanese Lost
Dallas Woodbury Isom
America's First Limited War
Gregory E. Fehlings
Mastering Violence
Loup Francart
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
The U.S. Naval War College
Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict
Thomas G. Mahnken
The End of North Korea
Carmel Davis
Canada's Asia-Pacific Security Dilemma
David A. Wilbur
America's Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security
Douglas Thompson
Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case
Robert G. Sullivan
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
John N. Petrie
Billy, Navy Wife
Evelyn M. Cherpak
American & British Aircraft Carrier Development, 19-19-1941
Michael C. Potter
The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory
Barrett Tillman
Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904-14
Carol Jackson Adams
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Theodore Gemelas
Additional Writings
Review Essays
The U.S. Naval War College
Misunderstanding Vietnam
Richard Megargee
The Venona Progeny
Hayden B. Peake
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Credit
"CAPing the Tico," by William S. Phillips, copyright 1997 by The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Courtesy of The Greenwich Workshop, Inc., Shelton, Connecticut. For more on the painting and the painter, see page 185