CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

PART I: GENERALITIES ABOUT STRATEGY

  1.  Generalities about Strategy

  2.  Maritime Communications

  3.  Revision of the Notion of Mastery of the Sea

  4.  First Approximation of a Theory for the Conduct of Operations

  5.  Second Approximation of a Theory for the Conduct of Operations

PART II: STRATEGIC MANOEUVRE

  6.  Generalities about Strategic Manoeuvre

  7.  German Operations in the North Sea (1914-1916)

  8.  German Operations in the North Sea (1914-1916) (continued)

  9.  Strategic Manoeuvre in Our Day

PART III: EXTERNAL FACTORS

10.  The Action of Policy on Strategy

11.  The Reaction of Strategy on Policy

12.  The Least Bad Compromise

13.  The Influence of Geography in Naval Warfare

14.  Colonial Expansion and Naval Strategy

PART IV: INTERNAL FACTORS

15.  The Offensive

16.  The Defensive

17.  The Attack and Defense of Communications

PART V: THE SEA VERSUS THE LAND

18.  Combined Operations in Strategy

19.  The Theory of Perturbation

20.  The Perturbateur and the Sea

Appendix. Major Publications by Admiral Castex

Index