Crisis of ConfidenceBy Rear Admiral William Houley, USN (Ret.); and Rear Admiral James Stark, USN (Ret.) - Two retired flag officers experienced in the acquisition process say the Navy needs to change the way it buys and builds ships.
Cover Story: A U.S. Navy A-7 Corsair II makes a low bombing run along the North Vietnam–Laos border in Marc Stewart’s painting Mu Gai Mayhem. Harry Hoffman’s account of his 1970 Corsair II mission gone bad, the first of four naval aviation articles, begins with A-7 Punch Out over Laos.