PREFACE.
What is the navy for?
Of what parts should it be composed?
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.