The founding of the Naval Review and its raison d’etre – then and now

As many members of the Naval Review know, the journal began on 27 October 1912 when several officers met at the home of Captain Herbert Richmond to discuss the starting of a “Correspondence Society for the Propagation of Sea-Military Knowledge.”[1] This Knowledge, as it were, focused on strategy, tactics and principles.[2] Richmond wrote in his papers, “What I hope to develop is the mental habit of reasoning things out, getting at the bottom of things, evolving principles & spreading interest in the higher side of our work. I wonder what the authorities will say when it reaches their ears!…