This is a pamphlet written during the naval reform period by Moltke the Elder, the Saxon Empire's first Chief of Naval Staff after the deep-sea invasion. He was a staunch naval reformer, even though he had previously served as an army staff officer. In later years, his New Naval Military Theory was seen as a work that built on the past and paved the way for the future, and received mixed reviews.
According to legend, 85 percent of this book was written by Moltke in a naval fortress near Konigsberg while wearing a gas mask, as he recalled in his memoirs. Local naval officers and the old navy faction were constantly opposing reform, while he himself faced all kinds of assassination attempts almost every day. His home was repeatedly hit by unexplained artillery fire from terrorists, forcing him to take refuge in the fortress to work...
(In reality, this is just something I wrote after chatting with a friend about what battles involving ship girls would actually be like.)
