The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Command: U.S. Naval Institute Wheel Book

In that same tradition, the new "Naval Institute Wheel Books" will provide supplemental information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professionals. Drawn from the U.S. Naval Institute s vast archives, the series will combine articles from the Institute s flagship publication "Proceedings," selections from the oral history collection and from Naval Institute Press books to create unique guides on a wide array of fundamental professional subjects.

Command is the pinnacle of leadership in a military organization. Navy regulations define both the authority and the responsibility of command as absolute. This "Naval Institute Wheel Book" provides practical guidance and advice that actual and would-be commanders can use to carry out that absolute authority. Included in this carefully selected collection is the experience of those who have commanded as well as the expectations of those who are commanded. Aspirants as well as practitioners will do well to exploit this selected survey of what Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz described as the one purpose for entering the Navy."