Continuing the tradition of Naval Institute Blue and Gold series classics such as Command at Sea and the Watch Officer's Guide, The Navy Staff Officer's Guide will equip naval leaders for success in the challenging professional environment of a Navy staff. Navy staffs build and equip the Navy, plan its future, and guide its current operations. During a staff tour, a savvy Navy leader can have positive reach beyond the lifelines of a single command, with impact across the fleet and years into the future. Staff duty emphasizes a different set of tools from those typically employed in sea duty billets. It has its own formal and informal expectations and its own opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls. This guide provides and explains those tools -- and marks the shoals that can wreck the unaware -- enabling both new and seasoned staff officers to be prepared for the unique requirements of staff duty. Through extensive use of historical examples and 'sea stories,' it introduces the reader
