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  title info:
    title: America's first general staff
    sub title: a short history of the rise and fall of the General Board of the Navy, 1900-1950
  name:
    name part: Kuehn, John T.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 thought and strategic thinking. The Board's creation was very much a reflection of the reformist spirit of the times that also gave birth to the Army War College, the Army General Staff and the Chief of Naval Operations. By the 1920s, the General Board was a permanent feature of the Navy and was regarded as the premier strategic "think tank" for advice to the Secretary of the Navy. The service of the men who comprised it is little-known, but their collaborative ethos should serve as a model for their modern counterparts. Kuehn's work offers both the first single-volume history of the General Board of the Navy, as well as analysis of the U.S. Navy during periods of great transition in both peace and war.
  table of contents: What was the General Board of the Navy? -- The naval reform movement and the creation of the General Board -- In the shadows of Nelson and Scharnhorst, 1900-1904 -- From Taylor to Fiske: the General Board, 1904-13 -- The General Board in peace and war, 1913-18 -- The challenges of peace: from Versailles to Washington, 1918-22 -- The heyday of the General Board: from Washington to London and after, 1922-31 -- Innovation and decline, 1932-41 -- Phoenix or Icarus? The resurgence and death of the General Board, 1941-51 -- Epilogue. America's first general staff -- Appendix 1. General orders relating to the establishment and reorganization of the General Board of the Navy -- Appendix 2. Secretaries of the Navy, 1900-1951 -- Appendix 3. General Board studies produced in 1901.
  note: John T. Kuehn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Navy.
      name part: General Board
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Navy
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Naval strategy
  classification: VA58 .K843 2017
  classification: 359.40973/09041
  identifier: 9781682471913
  identifier: 1682471918
  identifier: 9781682471920
  identifier: 2017031226
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170714
    record change date: 20180214142612.0
    record identifier: in00003922531