The year 1985 marked the 100th anniversary of Alfred Thayer Mahans association with the Naval War College. On 16 October 1885, Secretary of the Navy William C.
DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II IN SEPTEMBER 1939 AND THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR IN DECEMBER 1941
This inscribed stone seems to be an appropriate symbol of what this volume is about. In 1993, at the first Yale-Naval War College conference, the participants discussed the current state of maritime and naval history.
The decade of the 1990s represents a distinctive period in American naval strategic thinking. Bounded on one side by the end of the Cold War in 1989-91 and on the other by the beginning of the era of the global war on terrorism after 11 September 2001, these were years in wich the US. Navy of the 1990s found itself faced with a dramatically altered strategic situation.