John B. Hattendorf and Pelham Boyer (eds), HM 28: To the Java Sea: Selections from the Diary, Reports, and Letters of Henry E. Eccles, 1940-1942 by Alan M. Anderson
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Officers attending the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, quickly discover that the College's library is named in honor of Rear Admiral Henry E. Eccles, who retired in 1952.Eccles first came to the War College in 1948 to lead the Logistics Department.For more than thirty years, Eccles taught, wrote, lectured and advised those attending the College as well as its leaders, focusing on logistics, military strategy and theory, and civilmilitary issues.Eccles gained first-hand knowledge and experience with logistics and planning during the last two years of the Second World War in the Pacific, when he was tasked with leading the effort to develop advanced bases to support the US offensive against Japan.As Director, Advanced Base Section, for the entire Pacific Fleet, he was responsible for all aspects of advanced bases, including strategic planning, training, development, and support of the Navy's efforts."He was known around the world as a military intellectual and as an expert" on these topics (xvii).Not surprisingly, therefore, he is best remembered for his work in these subject areas.Often-overlooked, however, is the fact that Eccles commanded the twentyyear-old destroyer USS John D. Edwards from October 1940 until March 1942, barely considered when Eccles' naval career and life are recalled.Eccles was a combat veteran, twice decorated for gallantry and wounded in action.He fought in several major engagements in the early months of America's involvement in the war in the waters of Southeast Asia, while part of the brief American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) command, including the Battles of Badoeng Strait, Java Sea, and Sunda Strait.It is this lacuna in the historical knowledge about
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.014 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".