America's first general staff : a short history of the rise and fall of the General Board of the Navy, 1900-1950 /

The General Board of the Navy, existing from 1900 to 1950, was a uniquely American and unparalleled strategic planning organization at the time of its establishment. As John T. Kuehn shows, this was the United States' first modern general staff in peacetime, as well as the nexus for naval thoug...

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