Innovation in Carrier Aviation

Thomas C. Hone is the principal deputy director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  He is a former professor of defense acquisition at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort McNair, Washington, DC.  He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Professor Hone has worked as a special assistant to the Commander, Naval Air Systems Command.

Norman Friedman is a strategist known for his ability to meld historical, technical, and strategic factors in analyses of current problems.  He has offern appeared on television (on the History, Discovery, and other channels, including Public Television) and has published 32 books, ranging from accounts of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to histories of the Cold War to accounts of naval strategy and technolgoy.  He writes a monthly column on world and naval affairs for the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute and his writng has appeared widely in periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times.  His Cold War history, The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, won the 2001 Westminster Prize for the best military hisotry book of the previous year, from the Britiah Royal United Services Institute.  His Seapower as Strategy won the Samuel Eliot Morrison prize awarded by the Naval Order of the United States in November 2002.

Mark D. Mandeles, Ph.D., is president of J.de Bloch Group, a defense consulting firm.  He has been a professor of security studies at the American Military University and has had a long and distinguished career in academe and as a defense anaylst.  He is the author of American and British Aircraft Carrier Development: 1919-1941 and The Development of the B-52 and Jet Propulsion.  He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.