Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third EditionThe 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. |
Contents
Tactical Development in Peacetime | |
Jutland | |
The Revolution in Weaponry | |
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 | |
Appendix A Terminology | |
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