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Full Title	Course No. 27. Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich. Scheme no. 1649 - the principles of war.
Author	Peyton Jones, L.E. (Loftus Edward).
Date Added	12 January 2014
Language	English
Source	Battle of the Barents Sea.
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OCR 7 ;, ; y L “g‘ya;;t.,...z:..'.;m.&?&3ue-4AM"7 c .C.911.r.s2..Ii9.-.22 . ROYAL 1?i.Vj.L STIIHF COLLEGE, GREEIVFLCIE SCHEME NO. 1649 u PRINCIPIES oz: Te-.".AR . DS 1‘E'OTE.g Amendices :-- A -' Suggested Solutioxi ' ‘B - Boints 1'01‘ Central Discussion 0 v- Suggested Speakers Puggose of the Scliemg 1. (a.) To further study of the Principles of War ride War Manual, Chap. 3, pain. 9 and Chap. 11+). (1)) To give jpzactice in analysis and critical judgment. (:2) To give practice in writing a paper. . Briefing x 2. It should be clear from the setting that the Director wants a paper to study and not eithenlectuze notes or a thesis. The number of wczds required (11.00 - 1800) is only a guide for the ‘terse and the verbose. 3. Students should be told that they do not have to drag in every ‘ Principle for the sake of a full house. 15.. The paper can be dealt with in phases, zromarlcing on the relevant principles in each phase. This is apt to be eltnnsy, leading to a lengthy paper with the lessons obscure. 5. Th‘ alternative is to deal with each principle in turn over the action as a whole. Thislmalces for brevity and clarity but zeqpires judgment. ‘ 6. An introducizion and conclusion are not essential, but are always desirable even under other sobriqucts. Students should be advised to read N.S.H. Chapter 5, Section 3 before starting their paper. 7. Warm students not to deface the "white" and explain that the Appendices will prokxzbly be used for the next course. ‘- Conduct of tileichane , 8. The scheme is to be teommentcd on by the DS in the normal way ‘ except that the comments should concentrate on criticism of solutions ‘ as papers and deal particularly vrith lay--out, style, logical argument, sequence of argument, handling of the subject, etc. in r.ccorda11cc with para. 1 (c) above. The subject nutter in general will be largely covered in the ccntxul discussion which follows. DS should however criticise this aspect where it is obviously at fault. There is no staff example. i 9. Seo‘L:'Lon DS should nominate one member of their section to speak on h each of the subjects listed on the attached form (Appendix "C") and this ' form should be given to DST by 1600 Thursday, 30th April. The "remarks" are to assist in choosing opening speakers for the central discussion. w Students should be warned for which subjects they have been nominated. ' 10. Students should retain their rough notes for use in the central discussion. 3 1 [C0ndl1C;5uonoIcoo-