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From: Sea Power
Date: 19990201
Author:Cebrowski, Arthur K

The New Naval War College and the NWDC

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

I believed, upon assuming command as president of the new, reorganized Naval War College (NWC) last July, that the task ahead was clear: to assist in preparing our Navy, and our nation, to be ready to win any possible wars of the next century, not of the last. Just as 20th-century warfighting was based on industrial-age assumptions, 21stcentury ...

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