General Board of the Navy
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General Board of the Navy established on March 13, 1900, as the successor to the Naval War Board, a temporary organization created during the
Spanish-American War (1898) to advise the
Secretary of the Navy on naval strategy and to assist him in coordinating intelligence and strategic planning as well as the conduct of naval operations. The General Board consisted of nine officers, including the chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, the chief naval intelligence officer, the president of the
Naval War College, and the Admiral of the Navy, and was charged with making plans for the effective preparation of the U.S. fleet for wartime service and coordination of various Navy activities. In effect a naval general staff, the General Board lost most of its usefullness with the establishment of the position of
Chief of Naval Operations in August 1916.
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