A strategy book can reveal contemporary naval thinking even when its conclusions remain open to strong disagreement. Modern Naval Strategy receives a qualified recommendation on those grounds. Its authors are described as well informed, although they were behind the newest developments when they wrote it. Their arguments help explain ideas circulating in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Reading Modern Naval Strategy as evidence of interwar thinking
A qualified recommendation treats the book as evidence of interwar naval thinking despite substantial disagreement with its conclusions.