st-Defence upon the Movements
of the Navy.--The Military and Naval Conditions of Spain
at the Outbreak of the War 53

III. Possibilities open to the Spanish Navy at the Beginning
of the War.--The Reasons for Blockading Cuba.--First
Movements of the Squadrons under Admirals Sampson and
Cervera 90

IV. Problems presented by Cervera's Appearance in West Indian
Waters.--Movements of the United States Divisions and of
the _Oregon_.--Functions of Cruisers in a Naval Campaign 126

V. The Guard set over Cervera.--Influence of Inadequate
Numbers upon the Conduct of Naval and Military
Operations.--Camara's Rush through the Mediterranean, and
Consequent Measures taken by the United States 170

THE PEACE CONFERENCE AND THE MORAL ASPECT OF WAR 207
North American Review, October, 1899.

THE RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES TO THEIR NEW DEPENDENCIES 241
Engineering Magazine, January, 1899.

DISTINGUISHING QUALITIES OF SHIPS OF WAR 257
Scripps-McRae Newspaper League, November, 1898.

CURRENT FALLACIES UPON NAVAL SUBJECTS 277
Harpers' Monthly Magazine, June, 1898.

MAPS

ISLAND OF CUBA _To face page_ 59

THE CARIBBEAN SEA _To face page_ 113

LESSONS OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN

AND OTHER ARTICLES

LESSONS OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN

INTRODUCTORY

COMPREHENSION OF MILITARY AND NAVAL MATTERS POSSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE,
AND IMPORTANT TO THE NATION.

It is somewhat of a commonplace among writers upon the Art of War,
that with it, as with Art in general, the leading principles remain
unimpaired from age to age. When recognized and truly mastered, not
held by a passive acquiescence in the statements of another, but
really appropriated, so as to enter decisively into a man's habit of
thought, forming in that direction the fibre of his mind, they not
only illuminate conditions apparently novel, by revealing the
essential analogies between them and the past, but they supply the
clue by which the intricacies of the present can best be threaded.
Nothing could be more utterly superficial, for instance, than the
remark of a popular writer that "the days of tacks and sheets"--of
sailing