This course is a study of seapower and its influence on history from ancient times to the present. It includes analyses of Mediterranean naval history and the fall of Rome; the Age of Discovery; and Western European dominanace of naval strategy, including the Spanish Armada and the battles of the Napoleonic wars. It also includes 19th- and 20th-century maritime history, centering on development of the US Navy and roles of key civilian and military personalities. A brief examination of naval strategy since World War II is presented. The final meeting discusses Soviet naval developments. Course includes: Meeting 1, Principles of seapower; Meeting 2, Early naval warfare; Meeting 3, French Revolution to the American Civil War; Meeting 4, Post Civil War through World War I; Meeting 5, World War I and World War II; Meeting 6, World War II -- Atlantic; Meeting 7, Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal; Meeting 8, Pacific: Marshalls to Japan; Meeting 9, Postwar years to the present; and Meeting 10, History of the Soviet Navy. Materials included: bibliographies; chronologies; supplemental information on the history of carrier warfare; and "History, Dust Heap or Cornerstone?" by CPT S.W. Roskill.