U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts: Introduction, Background and Analyses

This brief is built around a series of charts, tables and maps on the following topics:

• Dedication 
• Overview & description
• Purpose
• Study origins & sponsorship 
• Approach & methodology
• Caveats & limits 
• What are “capstone” documents?
• Terminology & definitions: major issues 
• Can/should the US Navy have a strategy? 
• Kinds of policies & strategies
• Pre-1970s US Navy capstone documents