SSgt Alfred T. Dwyer, USMC, (Cryptologist), KIA Vietnam
February, 18 1935 – January 30, 1968
A note from Duffy Merrill, the NCVA Biographer:
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by Matt Zullo, CTICM(ret.)
2001 OTRG award winner
OTRG Historian and Author
As many of you likely know, I published a pair of books in 2020 about our very own “On-the-Roof Gang,” the US Navy’s cryptologic pioneers. Thanks to you, these books have sold well and have garnered some amazing reviews on many online retailer websites. Since then, I have continued my research into the group, finding new information and new photographs that are pertinent to the story. I am very excited to announce that I have published a Second Edition of both volumes of the books.
In 1982, an insurance agent with a fascination for naval history and Cold War strategy sat down to write a novel. He had no grand expectations—just a hope that maybe 5,000 readers would buy his book. That writer was Tom Clancy, and the manuscript was The Hunt for Red October.
Continue reading “Tom Clancy and The Hunt for Read October”
This photograph was taken in front of a captured Japanese Navy Communications facility. The U.S. Marines, 3rd Radio Intelligence Platoon took over the station and used as communications interception facility. Pictured are Marines and Navy Radio Intelligence personnel.
Continue reading “Navy Supplementary Radio Station, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, circa 1944”
By Captain Tony Butera, U.S. Navy
January 2019 Proceedings Vol. 145/1/1,391
The Navy is adjusting to the return to great power competition but has not gone far enough culturally in shifting its priorities and budget to win the competition. In many ways, a mind-set that prioritizes hardware over software pervades. Twenty years ago, then-Captain James Stavridis warned that while the nation and its defense industry were preoccupied with the first revolution in military affairs, peer competitors would leapfrog over and “skim the cream” from our technological advances to achieve “regional information dominance.”1 From China contesting international norms at sea to Russia using information operations to help seize Ukrainian territory and vessels, this prediction has come to pass. Great power competition today involves a constant state of multi-domain warfare.
Continue reading “Navy Information Warfare Needs More Resources—and Command at Sea”
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