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danger confronted properly is not something a man must
A lot of this work is still empirical, too.
In all the navies of the world, submariners were regarded as a curious breed, and submariners themselves looked upon sonar operators as odd.
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
The crew of the Dallas was like one big family, albeit one of the old frontier families, since everybody worked pretty damned hard. The captain was the father. The executive officer, everyone would readily agree, was the mother. The officers were the older kids, and the enlisted men were the younger kids. The important thing was, if you had something to say, the captain would listen to you. To Jones, this counted for a lot.
Sleeplessness murders judgment.
EVALUATION: A MAJOR UNPLANNED REDFLEET OPERATION HAS BEEN ORDERED WITH FLEET ASSETS REPORTING AVAILABILITY AND STATUS
When it became clear that the colonel could not be extracted from the Soviet Union, he himself urged CARDINAL to betray him.
“Judge, setting up the decision tree on this will not be easy—there are too many variables, too many possible contingencies.
most mutinies are led by officers, not enlisted men. The reason for this is simply that the enlisted men do not know how to navigate the ship.
It had been a truthful book, not the sort of thing that wins friends.
If anything, I’d say the Soviets have the advantage. They have both a clearer idea of the submarine’s capabilities and a simpler overall mission.
Then, there was the implicit lesson in the story: never let someone who does not belong into the reactor spaces.
“There is no extravagance in the pursuit of safety,” Petrov quoted doctrine.
It is a principle of diplomacy,” Pelt observed, “that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.”
He did not much care for his assigned mission either. He had two tasks that were not fully compatible.
he depended on a loose coalition of colleagues—not friends, these men did not make friends.
“Why is it that none of these men are married? Didn’t that tell you something?
“This is reasonable,” Alexandrov said. “Young men are motivated by hope, not fear.
“In any case, Padorin may have saved his skin. There is one extra element of control on the submarine.”
I know I’m going to be stuck with this.
Like hell, Ryan thought, I have a wife and two kids, and if I don’t get to him fast, I’ll sure as hell lose them.
Would it work? Shit! It worked in the movies. It was for damned sure that doing nothing wasn’t going to work.
As if we were not working harder than they to achieve peaceful coexistence!
but being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of their own governing philosophy.
Both captains were playing the cool game, Ryan noted bitterly from inside his terrified little world. Neither was willing to show fright before his peer.
“Kind of early in the day for this, isn’t it?” Moore finished off his third.
