Lectures

Lecture: Discourse on the Strategic Value of a Point, 1896

Lecture given by Captain A. T. Mahan and the Naval War College in which he stated that the strategic value of any point depended on three principal conditions which included its position, its military strength (offensive and defensive), and the resources of the place itself and the surrounding...

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Abstract of his Lectures: Strategy of the Caribbean and Napoleon's Campaign of 1796, 1896

Abstract of six lectures on strategy that were given by Captain A. T. Mahan at the Naval War College. Over some time, Mahan delivered a course of lectures upon strategy that clearly and forcibly set forth the great truths of the art of war. The whole course was divided into two series, the first...

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Lecture: Military Strategy of the Campaign of 1796 in Italy, circa 1887

Includes six lectures on Campaign of 1796 in Italy for application to naval strategy given by Mahan at the Naval War College. Please note that the last line of text is cut off on some of the pages.

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Fleet Battle Tactics lectures, 1886 Apr-May

Lectures on fleet battle tactics written by Mahan in April and May 1886 for the Naval War College. Mahan notes that these lectures were "never revised."