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==History== | ==History== | ||
The college was established on October 6, 1884; its first president, Commodore [[Stephen Luce|Stephen B. Luce]], was given the old building of the [[Newport Asylum for the Poor]] to house it on [[Coasters Harbor Island]] in [[Narragansett Bay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usnwc.edu/About/History.aspx|title=U.S. Naval War College: History|publisher= U.S. Naval War College|access-date=2011-05-23}}</ref> Among the first four faculty members were [[Tasker H. Bliss]], a future Army Chief of Staff, [[James R. Soley]], the first civilian faculty member and a future [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy]], and, most famously, Captain (later, Rear Admiral) [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]], who soon became renowned for the scope of his strategic thinking and influence on naval leaders worldwide. | The college was established on October 6, 1884; its first president, Commodore [[Stephen Luce|Stephen B. Luce]], was given the old building of the [[Newport Asylum for the Poor]] to house it on [[Coasters Harbor Island]] in [[Narragansett Bay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usnwc.edu/About/History.aspx|title=U.S. Naval War College: History|publisher= U.S. Naval War College|access-date=2011-05-23}}</ref> Among the first four faculty members were [[Tasker H. Bliss]], a future Army Chief of Staff, [[James R. Soley]], the first civilian faculty member and a future [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy]], and, most famously, Captain (later, Rear Admiral) [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]], who soon became renowned for the scope of his strategic thinking and influence on naval leaders worldwide. | ||
[[File:TRoosevelt Assist Sec Navy.jpg|thumb|left|[[Assistant Secretary of the Navy]] | [[File:TRoosevelt Assist Sec Navy.jpg|thumb|left|[[Assistant Secretary of the Navy]] Theodore Roosevelt on the steps of the Naval War College with faculty and students]] | ||
The College engaged in [[wargaming]] various scenarios from 1887 on, and in time became a laboratory for the development of [[war plan]]s. Nearly all of the U.S. naval operations of the twentieth century were originally designed and gamed at the NWC.<ref>Lillard, J. M., ''Playing War: Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for World War II'' ([[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]]: [[Potomac Books]], 2016).</ref> | The College engaged in [[wargaming]] various scenarios from 1887 on, and in time became a laboratory for the development of [[war plan]]s. Nearly all of the U.S. naval operations of the twentieth century were originally designed and gamed at the NWC.<ref>Lillard, J. M., ''Playing War: Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for World War II'' ([[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]]: [[Potomac Books]], 2016).</ref> | ||