Military Officer - June 2007 - (Page 26) rapidfire Music to My Ears re you missing out on one of MOAA’s most important benefits? By signing up for any or all of MOAA’s six free e-newsletters, you’ll be upto-date on the news and benefits that affect you — and you might even win an Apple iPod. MOAA’s e-newsletters are the Legislative Update, the News Exchange, Call to Action, MOAA Happenings, MOAA News Flash, and MOAA Messages. The e-newsletters update you about issues such as TRICARE, the Survivor Benefit Plan, permanent change-of-station allowances, Guard and Reserve health care, financial tips, career-transition advice, educational assistance for your children, chapterspecific notices, special discounts on products and services for MOAA members, and more. Each e-newsletter you subscribe to enters you once in the drawing — a total of up to six chances to win. If you already subscribe to ON THE WEB MOAA’s e-newsletters, you ■ Sign up at www.moaa.org/ automatically will receive prize before June 29 to start your subscriptions — and posone entry for each subsibly win an Apple iPod. scription you have. In Review Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945 By Evan Thomas. Simon & Schuster, 2006. $27. ISBN 0-7432-5221-7. amid misjudgment, hesitation, and petty rivalries. Annihilation From Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations By Fred Charles Ikle. Columbia University Press, 2006. $24.50. ISBN 0-23113952-7. A TRICAREUPDATE GUARD AND RESERVE servicemembers on temporary duty for more than 30 days now are eligible for TRICARE Overseas Program Prime, TRICARE Global Remote Overseas, and TRICARE Puerto Rico Prime enrollment. Guard and Reserve servicemembers serving in a military treatment facility (MTF) service area must enroll at that MTF. Servicemembers should contact the TRICARE service center supporting the local MTF to enroll. Visit www.tricare.mil/overseas/contact_overseas.cfm for a list of service centers. Servicemembers serving in remote areas overseas must enroll in Global Remote Overseas. Visit www.tri care.mil/overseas for more information. Servicemembers stationed in Puerto Rico must enroll in TRICARE Prime Puerto Rico. Enrollment forms are available at TRICARE service centers and at www .tricare.mil/enrollment/enrl_tprc.doc. 26 MILITARY OFFICER JUNE 2007 The Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 was “the biggest naval battle ever fought,” says best-selling and award-winning author Evan Thomas. It also was a battle where both sides’ misunderstandings and blunders cost them a chance for a smashing victory. Thomas describes the Pacific naval war in World War II from 1941-45, highlighting the careers of four officers — two American and two Japanese — who would figure prominently at Leyte Gulf. Representing vastly different cultures and attitudes, Thomas features Adm. William Halsey and Cmdr. Ernest Evans as well as admirals Takeo Kurita and Matome Ugaki as they fight their ships and aircraft in a wild melee of bombs, shells, and torpedoes. Their story is a superb example of courage, devotion to duty, naval tradition, and the problems of leadership and command As a counterpoint to Thomas Friedman’s optimistic book, The World Is Flat (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005), reviewed December 2006, former presidential foreign policy advisor Fred Charles Ikle offers a grim view of the future in this provocative and cautionary commentary. Ikle thinks the greatest national security threats are the result of rapid, ceaseless, and uncontrolled scientific and technological progress — especially the unfettered spread of nuclear and biological weapons capabilities — and unprecedented advances in “brain science,” the development of superhuman computer intelligence. He argues only strong, sovereign nations can impose peace and control but warns that the traditional roles of politics, society, and culture cannot keep pace with science and technology. — William D. Bushnell PHOTOS: ABOVE, STEVE BARRETT; TOP LEFT, KITTY EVARTS http://www.moaa.org/ http://www.tricare.mil/overseas/contact_overseas.cfm http://www.tricare.mil/overseas http://www.tricare.mil/overseas http://www.tricare.mil/enrollment/enrl_tprc.doc http://www.tricare.mil/enrollment/enrl_tprc.doc
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