ABSTRACT
SUPERIOR strength lies in the skill, experience, courage, and pugna city possessed by a commander who has carefully examined the conditions affecting the enemy and has decided whether he should for preference fight in open or confined waters and whether he should put on full sail or navigate at limited speed.1 Such men normally provide for ships of their fleet to give and take damage from abeam or from astern, so that they can themselves engage the enemy bow to bow with a hail of arrows, though more with heavier missiles than with darts and bolts.
