Finally, Morison’s biggest weakness isin putting Sims and the Navy against the sweep of changes that affected and comprised the history of modern America. Morison does the second a little less well, and the reason for this is because he didn’t quite capture all the technological, tactical, and organizational changes that affected the Navy of Sims and his contemporaries-though he tried hard to do it. If you read this book, you get to know ADM Sims, like him or not. Morison’s biography does the first very well. Navy is again in the middle of some very major changes.Īny good military biography will do three things: be truthful about its subject, place its subject in the life of that individual’s military institution, and put the individual and his institution in the context of a society’s history. I believe that his career is worth looking at now, when the U.S. Navy went from being a very minor naval force when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880 to being one of the world’s two strongest naval forces when he retired in 1922. Sims was an aggressive and often successful “change agent” as the U.S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters during World War I.
Sims (1858-1936), a Navy reformer and Commander of the U.S.
This hefty book (almost 550 pages) is a biography of ADM William S. Morrison, Admiral Sims and the Modern American Navy, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942). Tom Hone examines the life of an iconic American naval officer, and seeks lessons to apply in today’s age of military transformation.Įlting E.
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