This issue of the Institute PROCEEDINGS has been arranged as a special information number to furnish an authoritative and dependable exposition of what the Navy is doing to meet its peace-time obligation to the people of the country.
Many of our people by geography and by material interest are disassociated with the sea and direct overseas intercourse. It is only natural after a war has been ended and no immediate menace is in sight, and while burdened with heavy federal expenditures, that some lose interest in the necessity for the maintenance of a proper Navy. This has always been the case after each war. Such time is a particularly favorable period for the spread of the teachings of those who believe the Navy should be unduly curtailed.
It is highly fitting that the Naval Institute should present now these articles which show accurately the place of the Navy in the national and international affairs of the country.
Those who would give thought to the much agitated question of the naval strength that our country should have, will find much in these pages that will prove interesting and profitable reading.
S. S. ROBISON,
Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy,
President, U. S. Naval Institute