GEORGE E. LOWE was born in Scranton, PA (1928) and educated in the public schools of New York/New Jersey/PA. He graduated from Grove City College (BA-1950) and U. of Chicago (MA-1953) and taught at all levels of American education (1950-93). Served over 30 years in the Federal Government (1953-88), including US Naval Air Intelligence Officer ( Japan, Hawaii & the Pentagon), Foreign Service Officer (African Affairs & Paris Embassy), and Civil Servant (OE/ED). Author of The Age of Deterrence, Little, Brown (1964), It Can Happen Here: A Fascist Christian America, Xlibris, (2000), two Vols. And many articles on military policy, nuclear weapons, education, and the environment. Speechwriter in Navy Dept. (1961,65)/Department of Education (1981-88). Married in 1954, with two daughters and three Jack Russell Terriers. Hobbies are cooking/baking, book collecting, traveling, and bird watching. Splits the year in Stuart, Florida and Port Medway, Nova Scotia.

Mr. Lowe has graciously given me permission to reprint extended excerpts from his series, and the following text is from from George E. Lowe's "It Can Happen Here", Volume 1, page 74-79 :

With the encouragement of Dr. Walter Johnson and Dr. Robert
W Osgood I went to Washington, D. c., just after Christmas
1959, armed with a letter of introduction to the Navy's History
Office (Admiral Eller) from my oId boss at COMFAIR JAPAN,
Admiral Fitzhugh Lee, USN. I was determined to research and
write my doctoral dissertation on "The Changing Views of the US
Navy on Limited War." It wasn't long before I discovered that the
Navy's Office of History under the kind Admiral Eller was living
back somewhere in the 19th Century Age of Sail before jet aircraft,
nuclear subs, or the A-and H-bombs. Still I continued my re-
search at the Navy library in Main Navy and at the Army library
in the Pentagon.

However, through my research on limited war I was gradually
introduced to a cross section of selected Navy commanders, captains
and admirals, mostly on Admiral Burke's personal staff, who
presented me with a very unique inside view of the Pentagon. I was
astonished that they discussed the real political-military topics of the
day with me that I had read previously only in newspapers and textbooks
for the University of Chicago's history or political science classes:

0 limited versus total war

0 nuclear deterrence and deterrents

0 conventional versus atomic warfare

0 the Joint Chiefs of Staff versus a single Chief of Staff

0 the current four military services versus a single service

0 heavy bombers versus CVAs

0 Polaris versus Minuteman

0 solid propellants versus liquid-fueled ICBMs

0 balanced forces versus counterforce

0 the powers of the Secretary of Defense versus the JCS

0 the relationship of the JCS to the Commander-in-Chief

0 the 1947 creation of the Defense Department, the CIA, and
USAF

0 the military versus the peaceful uses of space

0 the proper role of airpower: close air support or strategic bombing

0 guerrilla and unconventional warfare

0 defense socialism

0 preventive and pre-emptive war and national policy

0 bomber and missile gaps: real or hoaxes?

0 "the revolt of the admirals" in 1949

0 the role of Congress versus the President in defense policy, (war
and war-making, authorization and appropriations for weapons)

0 the U-2 and spy satellites

0 the role of the media and specific weapons systems

0 the peaceful uses of Antarctica

0 the true nature of the Communist threat: aggressive war or
national bankruptcy ?

0 the utility of arms control and disarmament policies

I soon discovered and was positively amazed that lying behind
all these contemporary political-military issues was the conviction,
by this cross section of high ranking Navy and well placed active
duty naval officers, that there existed in the enemy camp some-
where in the Pentagon-a real cabal. This