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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE IMPORTANCE OF NAVAL STRENGTH Let us be warned in the outset not to confuse Naval Resources with Naval Strength. Resources are merely the raw materials and cannot be classed under strength until these materials have been fashioned into effective implements for war. Mere ships with Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE IMPORTANCE OF NAVAL STRENGTH Let us be warned in the outset not to confuse Naval Resources with Naval Strength. Resources are merely the raw materials and cannot be classed under strength until these materials have been fashioned into effective implements for war. Mere ships with depleted or untrained crews are resources; warships fully manned and trained for battle are strength. A fleet, undermanned, incompletely provided with ammunition and guns, lacking auxiliaries required for its service, short of destroyers, scouts, battle cruisers and submarines, although backed by the entire resources of the country, is a source of naval weakness rather than strength. A fleet just toe weak is worse than no fleet at all. National resources are indispensable, but they must be harnessed, organized, to be effective. To build a battleship inside of two years would be a proud exhibition of the country's resources, showing that these resources had been organized and administered effectively in the service of the state. When four and five years are required to put into commission a first-class ship from the day Congress has appropriated the money, it must be conceded that the resources of both the government and the country have been permitted to fall behind expectations. The problem of naval preparation for war is both perplexing and stupendous. At the root there must be the clearest understanding that war is a political act. It does not come suddenly and without warning. Statesmen and the reflective men and women of the country will have diagnosed the symptoms of the terrible disease long before it grips the nation by the throat and exacts a toll of the best blood of the land. During these years when the symptoms only are in evidence preparation should be c Books, Literary Collections~~General, Fundamentals-Of-Naval-Service~~Yates-Stirling, , , , , , , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

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