Naval education -- History

Chart depicting the demonstrative tactical exercises used in an assignment for the NWC Senior Class of 1934.

Chart depicting the demonstrative tactical exercises used in an assignment for the NWC Senior Class of 1934.

Correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, military and naval orders, and plans regarding the early administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station in Narraganset Bay. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents Charles Stockton and French Chadwick.

Paper presented by Captain Conant Taylor to NWC students on submarine tactics used in war.

Publication for students with tables that list the fire effects against Blue destroyers.

Fire sheet that was likely used by NWC students with their war gaming assignments.

Lecture given by Captain R. C. MacFall, head of the Tactics Section at the Naval War College, to the students in the senior class of 1934.

Staff studies, consists of projects, research studies and reports bearing on areas of concern to the Naval War College or the Department of the Navy. These monographs or book-length studies encompass the years 1908-1978 and are authored by military personnel, for the most part.

The studies provide insights into the kinds of problems and concerns that affected the Naval War College and U.S. Navy over the years.

Records of the Director, CNWS, including correspondence files regarding administrative matters, 1971–1995; Records of the Director, CAR/ARP, including correspondence files, 1976–1979; Minutes of meetings of Center for Advanced Research, 1972–1979; Advanced Research Program student applications and research proposals, 1973–1980; Advanced Research Program non-college applications and research proposals, 1973–1980; CAR/ARP unclassified student research papers, 1972–2000; CAR/ARP classified student research papers, 1972–2000; Strategic Studies Group, classified and unclassified papers and reports, 1991–1996; CNWS Command Histories, 1993–1994; Decision Support Group, applications and evaluations, 1995; Strategy and Campaign Department, Conference materials and RUKUS War Game, 1991–1995, War Gaming Videocassettes, 1994, and photographs.

This paper published by NWC's Center for Advanced Research covers the College's history and tradition of responding to American naval need. The paper discusses NWC's struggles to establish its institutional identity, educational outcomes, and while contributing to the development of American naval professionalism.