The U.S. Naval Institute on Panama Canal

by Thomas J Cutler (Editor)

Overview

The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique perspectives and some of the best contributions that have helped shape naval thinking over the many decades since the Institute’s founding in 1873. With the Panama Canal currently undergoing a major expansion, it is appropriate and enlightening to look back to the early days of this remarkable and somewhat presumptuous project. With its substantial maritime impact, it is not surprising that the canal was the subject of much thought-provoking dialog in the Naval Institute’s unique forum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682470459
Publisher:	Naval Institute Press
Publication date:	09/15/2016
Series:	U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	494 KB

About the Author

THOMAS J. CUTLER, series editor, has been serving the U.S. Navy in various capacities for more than fifty years. The author of many articles and books, including several editions of The Bluejacket’s Manual and A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy, he is currently the Director of Professional Publishing at the Naval Institute Press and Fleet Professor of Strategy and Policy with the Naval War College. He has received the Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award, the William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education as military teacher of the year at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Naval Literature, the U.S. Maritime Literature Award, the Naval Institute Press Author of the Year Award, and the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the U.S. Naval Historical Foundation.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1 "Bunau-Varilla, Protagonist of Panama" Captain George J. B. Fisher, USA U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, September 1933 5

2 "The Panama Canal" R. E. Bakenhus, Civil Engineer, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1913 22

3 "The Navy and the Panama Canal" Captain Harry S. Knapp, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1913 52

4 "A German View of the Strategic Importance of the Panama Canal" Dr. F. Zadow, Privatdozent of the University of Greifswald, translated by Lieutenant Commander E. J. King, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1914 72

5 "Shall We Outgrow the Panama Canal?" Lieutenant Commander P. V. H. Weems, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1924 78

6 Comment and Discussion on "Shall We Outgrow the Panama Canal?" Captain A. W. Hinds, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, February 1924 84

7 "Security of the Panama Transit in the War" Master Sergeant Frederick W. Hopkins, USMC U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, March 1949 90

8 "The Panama Canal-An Auxiliary of the Fleet" Captain R. S. Pahle, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, May 1954 101

9 "Prognosis for the Panama Canal" August C. Miller Jr. U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, March 1964 116

10 "Military Aspects of the Panama Canal Issue" Lieutenant Colonel Jack Child, USA U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, January 1980 134

11 "Defending Panama" Lieutenant Lawrence T. Peter, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, June 1990 147

12 "A Panama Canal for a New Century: Wider, Speedier, Busier" Commander Robert W. Selle, USNR (Ret) U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, September 2008 154

Index 159