NAVY

Related Subjects: Army, Sailor, Sea, Ship, Soldier, War

1. Not only is the British Empire the first of naval powers, it is also the first of colonial powers. One attribute is closely connected with the other; neither, without the other, would be applicable.—ADMIRAL BRIDGE
   

2. The true objective in naval warfare is the enemy's navy. That must be destroyed or decisively defeated, or intimidated into remaining in its ports. The British Empire may fall to pieces from causes as yet unknown or unsuspected: it cannot be kept together if it loses the power of gaining command of the Sea.—ADMIRAL BRIDGE
   

3. The high antiquity of decisive naval campaigns is amongst the most interesting features of international conflicts. Notwithstanding the much greater frequency of land wars, the course of history has been profoundly changed more often by contests on the water.—ADMIRAL BRIDGE
   

4. Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,
   And you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navee!—W. S. GILBERT, Pinafore
   

5. Theories about the naval warfare of the future are almost wholly presumptive.—CAPT. A. T. MAHAN (U.S.N.)
   

6. It is particularly in the field of naval strategy that the teachings of the past have a value which is in no degree lessened.—CAPT. A. T. MAHAN (U.S.N.)
   

7. A vague feeling of contempt for the past, supposed to be obsolete, combines with natural indolence to blind men even to those permanent strategic lessons which lie close to the surface of naval history.—CAPT. A. T. MAHAN (U.S.N.)
   

8. The history of Sea Power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently culminating in war.—CAPT. A. T. MAHAN (U.S.N.)
   

9. Naval tactics are based upon conditions the chief causes of which, namely the arms, may change; which in turn causes necessarily a change in the construction of ships, in the manner of handling them, and so finally in the disposition and handling offleets.—ADMIRAL MOROGUES