Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation

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There are few people as well qualified as Admiral Holloway to write this special book about the Cold War, one of the most fascinating chapters in our country’s relatively young history. Drawing upon examples from his personal experience, Admiral Holloway gives his readers a front-row seat to many of the dramatic and strategic decisions made by our political and military leaders that held the Communists in check and led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

From ensign to admiral, through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the nasty little skirmishes of the Cold War, Admiral Holloway served in the front lines in both operational and policy positions. It has been said of Jim Holloway that his destroyer was shot up by the Japanese in World War II, his plane shot down by the Chinese in Korea, and his flagship shot at by the North Vietnamese.

I was long an admirer of Jim’s from afar but had a chance to work with him personally when, in 1985, he served as executive director of the president’s Task Force on Combating Terrorism. In 1986, I appointed him special envoy to the Middle East to resolve a territorial dispute between Bahrain and Qatar. Long before anyone had ever heard of Al Qaeda, Jim knew and understood the terrorist threat and was working behind the scenes to keep our country safe.

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