Naval War College Review
Volume 73, Number 2 (2020) Spring 2020
Following the 15 April 1969 downing of an EC-121 USN reconnaissance plane by North Korean fighters, a C-130 Hercules cargo plane circled overhead and took photos. The cover photo shows crewmembers on the deck of a Russian antisubmarine ship and a whaleboat off its bow, both looking for debris from the downed plane. In “‘Improbable Allies,”’ Bill Streifer and Irek Sabitov relate the story of the joint U.S.-Soviet search-and-rescue and recovery operations that followed the downing, an example of international and interservice cooperation at sea during the depths of the Cold War.
Full Issue
Spring 2020 Full Issue
The U.S. Naval War College
From the Editor
From the Editors
Robert Ayer
President's Forum
President's Forum
Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College
Articles
The “Indo” in the “Indo-Pacific”—An Indian View
Yogendra Kumar and Probal K. Ghosh
Operation Earnest Will—The U.S. Foreign Policy behind U.S. Naval Operations in the Persian Gulf 1987–89; A Curious Case
Andrew R. Marvin
“Improbable Allies”—The North Korean Downing of a U.S. Navy EC-121 and U.S.-Soviet Cooperation during the Cold War
Bill Streifer and Irek Sabitov
Sir John Orde and the Trafalgar Campaign—A Failure of Information Sharing
J. Ross Dancy and Evan Wilson
Book Reviews
“Whatever is Worth Doing At All, is Worth Doing Well”—Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century
Edward Erwin, Daniel R. Brunstetter, and Cian O’Driscoll
Into the Dark Water: The Story of Three Officers and PT-109
Edward Gillen and John J. Domagalski
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949
Dale C. Rielage and M. Taylor Fravel
Reflections on Reading
Reflections on Reading
John E. Jackson
Additional Writing
Credits
Source: Associated Press, from an Air Force Reserve handout