NAVAL STRATEGY
Introductory.
Naval strategy does not exist as a separate branch of knowledge. It is only a section of a division of the art of war.
The study for officers is the art of war, specialising in Naval Strategy.
The true method of procedure then is to get hold of a general theory of war, and so ascertain the exact relations of Naval Strategy to the whole.
Theory of war.
War is a form of political intercourse, a continuation of foreign politics which begins when force is introduced to attain our ends.
OBJECTS.
We seek our ends by directing force upon certain objects, which may be ulterior or immediate.