Excerpt from Naval Strategy Compared and Contrasted With the Principles and Practice of Military Operations on Land: Lectures Delivered at U. S. Naval War College, Newport, R. I., Between the Years 1887 and 1911
The original lectures, which alone represent a methodical treatment, however brief, are contained seriatim in seven chapters, six to twelve inclusive. In these there has been some modification of details, owing mainly to the lapse of time introducing changes of conditions; but substantially and in plan they continue as first framed.
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