Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third Edition

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Naval Institute Press, 15.06.2018 - 408 Seiten
The revised edition of this indispensable work still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends constants, and variables. Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations continues to emphasize combat data, including how hitting and damage rates and maneuvering have been conducted to achieve an advantage over the centuries. The third edition highlights the current swift advances in unmanned vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber warfare in peace and war, and other effects of information warfare, and how they are changing the ways battles at sea will be fought and won.
 

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List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction
Six Cornerstones
Tactical Development 16501815
Tactical Development in Peacetime
Jutland
The Revolution in Weaponry
1916
The Great Constants
The Trends and Constants of Technology
The Great Variables
A TwentyFirstCentury Revolution
Modern Tactics and Operations
Log Entries
The Battle of the Aegean

The Revolution in Sensors
After World War II
The Evolution of Tactics in the Age of Missile Warfare
of Action and Ships Sunk
The Great Trends
Appendix A Terminology
Bibliography
Index
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Autoren-Profil (2018)

Capt. Wayne P. Hughes Jr., USN (Ret.) served thirty years on active duty, commanding a minesweeper, a destroyer, and a large training command. In retirement, he served more than thirty years at the Naval Postgraduate School in many teaching, research, and administrative capacities and was Dean Emeritus. Rear Adm. Robert Girrier, USN (RET.), is founder and managing member of Strategic Navigation LLC, a consulting company. Serving over thirty-three years in the Navy, he stood-up and led the Navy staff ’s first-ever office for unmanned warfare systems. While on active duty he served as Deputy Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet, commanded two carrier strike groups, served as the Navy’s global mine warfare commander, commanded a forward-deployed destroyer squadron, guided missile destroyer, and a mine countermeasures ship. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

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