United States. Navy. General Board

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This item contains comments by AT Mahan on a strategic plan drawn up at the Naval War College regarding the preparedness and abilities of Blue and Orange. Included are the War College's notes about his comments, and Mahan's reply. It also contains personal correspondence between ADM Raymond P. Rodgers and Mahan seeking consent to provide the General Board with his comments. A note on the cover confirms the information was shared with the General Board.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I is divided into two parts, Part I is devoted to Military Intelligence and Part II is devoted to technical intelligence. Each part is arranged on different classification schemes. There is a card catalog index for Series I, available only onsite at the Naval Historical Collection. Nine drawers are devoted to an alphabetical listing by subject and four drawers are devoted to an alphabetical listing by the source of the material. This index is not complete and only relates to documents from 1910-1938.Series I, Part I has approximately 51 linear feet of material. About 19.5 linear feet of this collection focuses on intelligence information about foreign countries, 27 linear feet is devoted to information about U.S. forces and, the remaining 5 linear feet is World War I focused.Part I is organized on the following scheme of classification: Heading Subject A Asia (Except China and Japan) ...

Scope and Contents

War planning document in case of a war between the United States and Japan.