NAM.1983-03-104-3

Inventory description: MS, essay (11 pages): ‘Illustrate from the battles of the sailing era the application of the Principles of War, and state the conditions that had to be fulfilled to obtain decisive victory, in general terms applicable to present-day conditions’. Written by Cunningham whilst at Royal Naval Staff College, 1924. From papers of Gen Sir Alan Cunningham (1887-1983).