What principles should be followed in designing, preparing, and operating it in order to get the maximum return for the money expended?

To answer these questions clearly and without technical language is the object of the book.

BRADLEY A. FISKE.

U. S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE,
NEWPORT, R. I., September 3, 1916.

CONTENTS

PART I
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
CHAPTER
I. [WAR AND THE NATIONS]
II. [NAVAL A, B, C]
III. [NAVAL POWER]
IV. [NAVAL PREPAREDNESS]
V. [NAVAL DEFENSE]
VI. [NAVAL POLICY]
PART II
NAVAL STRATEGY
VII. [GENERAL PRINCIPLES]
VIII. [DESIGNING THE MACHINE]
IX. [PREPARING THE ACTIVE FLEET]
X. [RESERVES AND SHORE STATIONS]
XI. [NAVAL BASES]
XII. [OPERATING THE MACHINE]

STRATEGIC MAP OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS

*** Chapters III and VII were published originally in The U. S. Naval Institute; chapters I, II, IV, V, and VII in The North American Review.

PART I