"Close hauled, port tack, all plain sail and steam": The culture of the quarterdeck -- "The fleet of to-morrow": Progress and professionalization in the postwar Navy -- "The ocean is a great chess-board": The strategical awakening -- "The essence of intelligence work": Strategy infiltrates the Office of Naval Intelligence -- "A real navy": The war Navy -- "To organize victory in advance": the Naval War College and the culture of strategy -- "The means to the end": The Navy's culture wars, 1887-97 -- "War cannot be made by rule of thumb": Strategic acculturation and practice in the Navy, 1894-97
Summary
"This study examines how intellectual and institutional developments transformed the U.S. Navy from 1873 to 1898. The agents of naval transformation embraced a progressive ideology. They viewed science, technology, and expertise as the best means to effect change in a world contorted by modernizing and globalizing trends. Two new cultures--Strategy and Mechanism--influenced the course of transformation."--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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