Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third Edition

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By Estate of Wayne P Hughes, Jr., USN (Ret.) and Robert P. Girrier and Wayne P Hughes, Jr., USN (Ret.)

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Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third Edition explores the evolution of naval warfare, focusing on modern tactical and operational concepts. It's an in-depth analysis of how technology, strategies, and policies shape naval engagements and outcomes. The book blends historical insights with contemporary examples, offering a comprehensive view of naval strategy for both scholars and enthusiasts.
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Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third Edition

Covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends, constants, and variables. This third edition highlights the current swift advances in unmanned vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber warfare and other effects of information warfare.

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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 emphasise combat data, including how hitting and damage rates and manoeuvring 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781682473375

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 August 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Naval Institute Press

Edition: Third Edition, New Edition, Third edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Foreword by John M. Richardson

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 671g

Pages: 408

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Estate of Wayne P Hughes, Jr., USN (Ret.) History & Military Military History Non-Fiction Robert P. Girrier Science & Nature Series: Jack Ryan, Jr. Wayne P Hughes, Jr., USN (Ret.)

About the Author

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.