Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third EditionNaval 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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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 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
achieve Admiral advantage Aegean aircraft carriers American amphibious antiscouting armor ASCMs ashore attack effectively Battle of Midway battlefield battleships British campaign coastal column combat command-and-control commander’s communications concentration countermeasures cruise cruisers Cushings damage deception decisive defense destroy destroyers detection doctrine enemy enemy’s Exocet exploit fighters Fighting Instructions fire firepower firepower kill fleet actions fleet tactics formation fought Grant Guadalcanal gunfire guns important information warfare islands Japanese land land-based launched maneuver maritime military missiles mission mobility modern naval operations naval tactics Naval War College Navy’s Nelson nuclear offensive peacetime potential radar Royal Navy sail scouting sensors ships side signals Solomons Soviet speed staying power strategic striking power submarines success Sun Tzu superior surface surprise survive tactical commander tacticians targets threat torpedo trend Turkish U-boats U.S. Navy United unmanned vessels warships wartime weapon range World World War II
