Set and Drift: Naval Force in the New Century

Authors

Joseph A. Gattuso Jr.
Lori Tanner

Abstract

It is 1890.1 The United States is flexing its broad, young shoulders, strengthened by an infusion of new immigrants, new technologies, and by American political leadership that represents the growing nation’s outward-looking perspective. The United States desires to play on the world stage along with the great imperial nations. However, naval leadership has a different viewpoint. It is content with its small, coastal, commerce-raiding, Jeffersonian fleet. Then along comes a reticent, unlikable naval captain of middling reputation who captures the nation’s imagination with his plan for a navy that will do battle at sea upon the great world stage.

Recommended Citation

Gattuso, Joseph A. Jr. and Tanner, Lori (2001) "Set and Drift: Naval Force in the New Century," Naval War College Review: Vol. 54: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol54/iss1/9