WWI Era US Navy History Battle Estimate of the Situation Naval War College 1926

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Estate sale find, vintage original 1926 copy of The Estimate of the Situation with the Order Form, Prepared for the Use of Officers in Attendance at the Naval War College.
“Doctrine” served as the baseline for the Navy’s intellectual framework entering the interwar period, and its ideas continued to shape the Navy’s warfighting through World War II.
The creation of this doctrine was of the result of efforts by a group of reformers who had taught or studied at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. In the years leading up to World War I, the Naval War College underwent a revolution in pedagogy, borrowing the Army War College’s “applicatory system” of war gaming, which improved Newport’s already-robust war gaming program. The system, which could be transferred to real-world operations, was based on producing an “estimate of the situation,” writing clear, but general, orders to subordinates, and letting them execute in accordance with the commander’s intent as expressed in the estimate.
In fact, since the birth of modern formal planning in the United States Naval Service until 1948 when Admiral Raymond Spruance, then President of the Naval War College, advocated it be moved to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, the methodology of naval operational planning was the exclusive province of the Naval War College in Newport, RI. The college officially introduced “The Estimate of the Situation” into the curriculum in form of a lecture given to 26 officer students
of the summer class of 1910.
In 1915, the first pamphlet containing the “Estimate of the Situation” was written by then President of the College, Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, and published in The United States Naval Institute Proceedings. The pamphlet was routinely revised by each succeeding president until 1926 when the estimate and order form were combined into one planning manual titled: “The Estimate of the Situation with the Order Form.”
The booklet is approximately 6" X 8.75", 39 pages, shipping weight approximately 5 ounces.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The booklet is in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition, signs of wear, creases, fading, tears, sunning and age toning, soiling, stains, writing, no odors, please see images.
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