The Situation and Organization

By Major G. C. Thorpe, U. S. M. C.
October 1917
The "estimate of the situation" is a process of reasoning whereby a decision is reached as to the answer to the question, "How shall the thing be done?" It is ...

The Pioneer "Ironclad"

By James Morris Morgan, Aide De Camp Of Commodore Hollins, C. S. N.
October 1917
Most people generally prefer to gather their historical lore from popular rumor rather than to laboriously search official records for their facts. For instance ; the public press at the ...

William Chauvenet

By Professor W. Woolsey Johnson
October 1917
*An address delivered before The Chauvenet Club, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.William Chauvenet, for whom our club is named, was born on the 24th of May 1820 at Milford ...

International Notes: Naval War Notes

Prepared By Lieutenant I. C. Kidd, U. S. Navy
October 1917
STRATEGY DIGGING-OUT TACTICS, by Percival A. Hislam in the London Magazine.—It used to be a favorite saying among the naval writers before the war that "the frontiers of the ...

International Notes: Diplomatic Notes

Prepared By A. F. Westcott, Ph. D., Instructor, U. S. Naval Academy
October 1917
FROM AUGUST 18 TO SEPTEMBER 18 PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY TO THE POPE.—In a note made public August 29, President Wilson rejected the Pope's proposal for peace negotiations made in his ...

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