In 1910, the revered maritime strategist Sir Julian Stafford Corbett published The Campaign of Trafalgar, with the intent of providing the first "staff account" of the celebrated battle. Beautifully w
The respected naval historian emphasizes precise definitions of terminology and ideas as the antidote to purposeless discussion and the direct path to the fundamental data on which all are agreed. He
Sir Julian Corbett was the seminal thinker on British strategy. His great asset was the historical rigor he brought to his subject and his ability to draw out the larger patterns and ideas that infor
In the early 20th century this book was required reading in any study of naval strategy. Though this work pre-dates the airplane, submarine, and missile, it still should be basic reading for students
