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Captain Carl A. Nelson, USN (ret.)
“enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Upon completing boot camp and Class 'A" Electricians mate he then stayed on to
play for the at Great Lakes Naval Training Station varsity basketball team. In the winter of 1950, while waiting assignment
to a ship he received a telephone call from a high school friend, George Frazier. George told him a third alternate congressional
appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD was available -- would he like to try? Captain Carl A. Nelson's life immediately changed. Instead of orders to sea duty, he was
assigned to the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport Rhode Island where he again played varsity basketball and studied for
the entrance exam. Upon passing, he entered Annapolis where he played plebe and junior varsity basketball, became a leader
of his class as a company commander. He was commissioned into the line as an Ensign on June 1st with class of 1956.”
During his Naval Career, Captain Carl A. Nelson served both at sea and shore duties.
Including: USS Gary (DER 326); USS Decatur (DD 936); USS Cocopa (ATF 101); the Naval Academy; Naval Post Graduate School;
USS Cook (FF 1083); and, USS Worden (CG-18) . Captain Carl A. Nelson “retired from active navy duty after 33 years of service in 1982 with
eighteen military awards and decorations including the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star "V", two Air Medals, Combat
Action Medal, several Navy Commendations, and many foreign decorations.”
Captain Carl A. Nelson, USN (ret.)
is the author of
Boot
Camp Buddies, Annapolis: The Making of
a Naval Officer, Madam President and
the Admiral, The Message of the Puzzle
Ring: A True Story That Can Change
Your Life (and the World),
Import/Export: How to Take Your
Business Across Border, Import/Export:
How to Get Started in International
Trade, Secret Players, The Advisor:
Co-Van, Exporting: A Manager's Guide
to the World Market and Protocol for
Profit: A Manager's Guide to Competing
Worldwide.
According to the book description of
Boot Camp Buddies, “as a
former enlisted sailor and officer in
the United States Navy, Carl Nelson is
well suited to write this book. In his
first career, he rose from boot camp
at Great Lakes Naval Station in
Wisconsin to a highly decorated Navy
captain by way of Annapolis and a
naval career that spanned more than
thirty-three years. It included duty
as faculty at West Point and
Annapolis, four tours of duty in the
Vietnam War. His sea assignments
included commanding officer of the
guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Worden
CG-18, the frigate U.S.S. Cook
FF-1083, the towing/salvage vessel
U.S.S. Cocopa ATF 101, and as the
senior military advisor (Commanding
Officer) of sailors and Marines in the
Rung Sat Special Zone (RSSZ), a brown
water riverine unit. Since retirement
from the Navy he has earned a
doctorate, taught as a professor and
is now an author listed in Whos Who in
California, 1989, Whos Who in America,
2006, Whos Who in American Education,
2006, and Whos Who in the World,
2007.”
According to the book description of
Annapolis: The Making of a Naval
Officer, “This is the
fourth book in the Blake Lawrence
series. Graduates of the Naval Academy
might recognize that this story could
span any period of the twentieth
century with a little spilled over on
each side. In this case Blake enters
the Naval Academy during the middle of
the 20th century and faces the
barriers and challenges placed in
front of young men (and more recent,
women) who aspire to a naval career:
academic as well as hazing. It takes
him into heroic situations both at sea
and ashore in foreign places. Lawrence
is based on situations that actually
happened at Annapolis. The stories
have, of course, been embellished to
protect the innocent as well as the
author and his friends; the names,
characters, places and incidents are
used fictitiously. The characters are
composites and any resemblance to real
people living or dead is entirely
coincidental.”
According to the book description of
Madam President and the Admiral,
"Let me play this back" President Cass
said as she scanned her advisors.
"Russia and China are poised to fight
over a border dispute and an oil
pipeline. If war breaks out, they will
need to replace that oil. They expand
by taking the Spratly Islands, then
take control of the mid-East oil trade
route and risk a world war? China
fights Russia and takes us and Taiwan
on at the same time? None of it makes
sense." She took a deep breath. "I
have followed China and this is out of
character. This could be about oil or
property, or both, but my take is it's
about something else. Something we've
never faced before. As
commander-in-chief, I will decide."
According to the book description of
Import/Export: How to Take Your
Business Across Border, “Fully
revised and updated-the go-to guide
from an expert on international
trade. Doing business across national
borders is more profitable than ever.
In the exhaustively revised fourth
edition, Import/Export provides
step-by-step guidance to show you how
to take part in the booming world
economy.”
According to the book description of
Secret Players, it
“about international intrigue and
behind-the-scenes power run amok. But
it is also a metaphor for the dangers
of a few elitists conspiring to
formulate a strategy for a New World
Order without consulting the people.
Taking the reader to Pittsburgh,
Detroit, Saginaw, Washington, Paris,
Tokyo, and Taiwan, this story shows
how the lives of five strong women and
four determined men become intertwined
during the last half of the twentieth
century. Two veterans who faced each
other during World War II set out to
change the world. Buck Steele, who
wants to be rich, is determined not to
live a Pittsburgh steel mill life.Sako
Amanuma, out of hatred and shame,
against the private wishes of his wife
becomes the Shadow Shogun of Japan
with a strategy to conquer the United
States. Buck's accidental wife,
Carrick, takes him to Detroit and
introduces him to the Cass family of
Saginaw. Buck then grows the CASS
Corporation into America's first
billion-dollar conglomerate and a
target for take-over by the Shadow
Shogon.”
According to the book description of
Import/Export: How to Get Started in
International Trade, “A
thoroughly updated new edition of the
premier guide to international trade
now features a special section on the
e-commerce revolution. Dr. Carl Nelsons
acclaimed resource for beginners
venturing into the import/export
business is more timely and
action-oriented than ever in this
fully revised Third Edition.
Showcasing an indispensable new
chapter on the ins and outs of
e-commerce and how to take advantage
of all of cyberspaces exciting
possibilities, Import/Export also
features a range of new material and
guidance. Nelsons
practical, easy-to-follow approach
covers all the basics, including
choosing a product, making contacts,
and cutting through government red
tape.. Carl E. Nelson (Chula Vista,
CA) is the author of Global Success:
International Business Tactics for the
1990s and Managing Globally: . A
Complete Guide to Competing
Worldwide.”
According to the book description of
Exporting: A Manager's Guide to
the World Market, “The book is
aimed at everyone at management level
involved in international trade. It is
particularly useful to managers with
small- and medium-sized manufacturing
and service companies growing toward
new international challenges. The book
will show the 'do it yourself'
approach to exporting as well as how
best to recruit and use intermediary
help. This title focuses on how
exporters can compete successfully in
a global market. It shows how to get
your export business started and how
to expand it globally.”
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According to the book description of
The Advisor: Co-Van,
“The Advisor happens to be set during
the Vietnam War, but its message is
universally applicable -- the
characters could be State Department,
Peace Corps, or soldiers in Bosnia.
What sets The Advisor apart from many
other novels written about Vietnam?
This provocative story deals with the
complexities of being an advisor to
foreigners in wartime: a clash of
cultures, combat action and political
intrigue. Played out through Viet Cong
as well as American and South
Vietnamese characters, the book
narrates both sides of that strange
war. More than just an
action-adventure story, The Advisor is
driven by historical intrigue,
gripping drama, and haunting romance
suffused with the mystery and
seduction of the orient. It begins in
the summer of 1972, the last year of
the war, before the U.S. military left
South Vietnam, and ends in 1975 when
the last Americans are evacuated. This
metaphoric novel challenges the Domino
Theory -- the premise of the Vietnam
War, while spinning a tale of
protecting the Long Tau Channel, the
most strategic waterway in the
campaign. Commander Blake Lawrence, a
blue water sailor, is unwillingly
thrust into the Rung Sal Special Zone,
a place he does not want to be, among
a people whose culture he doesn't
understand, and a kind of war he is
unprepared to fight. As the Senior
Advisor, he struggles to sort out
several moral dilemmas: Will he be
court-martialed and lose his destroyer
command? Who is correct -- his boss,
Rear Adm. Paulson, or his Vietnamese
counterpart, Captain Duc-Lang? The
ethics of dealing with guerrillas.
What should he do about the women in
his life -- his wife, Beverly, who is
fed-up with Navy life, and the
temptation of infidelity withseductive
Peg Thompson? What's more important --
a North Vietnamese Colonel named Tu or
the Russian AT3 rockets, his integrity
of his destroyer command? What's the
war about -- Communism or Dynastics?
At the end of the book, we find Blake
back at sea in command of a destroyer,
where he witnesses the final American
withdrawal in 1975. We learn what
happened after his days as an advisor,
and why he is invited to return to
fight.”
According to the book description of
Protocol for Profit: A Manager's
Guide to Competing Worldwide,
“This book examines key business
practices and protocol in 135
countries including emerging trading
nations such as Mexico, Russia, China
and Vietnam. The book takes an
international to protocol, examining
correct etiquette and business
procedures. Protocol for Profit is a
professional book that offers theory
but concentrates on chunks of
practical information in a country by
country format.”
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