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America's First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the U.S. Navy, 1900-1950
John T. Kuehn
The General Board of the Navy was a uniquely American strategic planning organisation with few analogues at the time of its establishment. It existed from 1900 to 1950. The General Board served as the ""balance wheel"", or nexus, for bringing together coherent strategy and fleet design. As John T. Kuehn shows, this Board was the United States' first modern general staff in peacetime.
320 pages, 12 black & white photographs, 3 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 30, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781682471913 |
| Publishers | Naval Institute Press |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 655 g |
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