Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 7th Lord Longford [earlier Lord Pakenham] on the decision to stop building aircraft carriers; Admiral Sir Varyl Begg, 1st Sea Lord, on the 1966 Defence Review, particularly relating to aircraft carriers; Sir Geoffrey de Freitas, Chairman of the Labour Party’s Defence Committee, on Davis's concerns about the future of NATO; John Moore, Editor of Jane’s Fighting Ships, on concerns about the state of the Navy; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John.Also...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the current situation (in 1942), particularly relating to losses of merchant shipping, British naval weakness and the need to regain control of communications at sea; future naval building; the function of the aircraft carrier; the need to discredit the Nazis in the eyes of Germans; past and future strategy; concerns about Operation Torch [the Allied invasion of North Africa]; shortages of aircraft carriers; co-operation with shore-based aircraft; strategy in the Indian and...