Here are entered works on long term questions of naval strength, including weapons, installations, national resources, etc., allowing a country to maintain control of the sea and the air space above. Works on the strategic and tactical employment of land or sea-based forces of a country at the time its maritime interests are threatened, so as to gain or exploit control of the sea or deny its use to the enemy, are entered under Sea control. --subdivision History, Naval under names of countries; and names of individual navies
Here are entered works discussing collectively the member countries of the international organization which was founded in 1931 as the British Commonwealth of Nations, changed its name to the Commonwealth of Nations in 1950, and became known as the Commonwealth in 1969. Works on the organization are entered under the name heading appropriate for the time period covered in the work.
