Mahan, Lyle Evans

Records of the Director, CNWS, including correspondence files regarding administrative matters, 1971–1995; Records of the Director, CAR/ARP, including correspondence files, 1976–1979; Minutes of meetings of Center for Advanced Research, 1972–1979; Advanced Research Program student applications and research proposals, 1973–1980; Advanced Research Program non-college applications and research proposals, 1973–1980; CAR/ARP unclassified student research papers, 1972–2000; CAR/ARP classified student research papers, 1972–2000; Strategic Studies Group, classified and unclassified papers and reports, 1991–1996; CNWS Command Histories, 1993–1994; Decision Support Group, applications and evaluations, 1995; Strategy and Campaign Department, Conference materials and RUKUS War Game, 1991–1995, War Gaming Videocassettes, 1994, and photographs.

This collection consists of letters Mahan sent primarily to his daughter, Helen E. Mahan, copies of Mahan family photographs, and research notes and materials compiled by Mahan from 1897-1914 on a variety of subjects including the Spanish American War and the War of 1812. Also of note are two sets of lectures written by Mahan that he delivered at the Naval War College as well as a journal and some writings he kept while serving on the U.S.S. Iroquois in China and Japan.