Destroyer history through national design philosophies

The planned destroyer studies compare navies that repeatedly produced new classes, allowing their design decisions to be followed over time. The examples include Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, China, Sweden, and Austria-Hungary. Exercises, naval theory, and development experience are proposed as explanations for the choices behind individual classes. Germany's continued use of the torpedo-boat label is one of the questions the series intends to investigate. These are proposed lines of investigation, with the detailed national explanations left to the individual studies.