Fleet Tactics And Naval Operations, Third Edition

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword to the Third Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Foreword to the First Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	A Third Edition for the Cyber and Robotics Age
	Fleet Tactics: A Definition
	More Terminology
	A Pre-Underway Tour
1 Six Cornerstones
	Commentary from Aboukir Bay
	Six Cornerstones
	Sailors Matter Most
	Doctrine: The Glue of Tactics
	To Know Tactics, Know Technology
	The Seat of Purpose Is on the Land
	“A Ship’s a Fool to Fight a Fort”
	Attack Effectively First
	Lanchester’s Equations
2 Tactical Development, 1650–1815
	The Age of Fighting Sail
	The Ship of the Line: Massing Firepower
	The Column: The Means of Control
	The Creative Phase
	The Fighting Instructions Mature
	English Tactics Ossified
	Naval Tactics Restored
	The Influence of Strategy
	Summary
3 Tactical Development in Peacetime
	The Golden Age of Tactical Thought, 1865–1914
	Precursors
	After the Civil War, 1865–85
	Triumph of the Big Gun, 1900–1916
	Reemergence of the Fighting Column
	Crossing the T
	Cruising Formation and Tactical Scouting
	Command-and-Control
	The Destroyer Screen and Torpedo Threat
	Turn-of-the-Century Theory and Practice
	Jutland
	Concept versus Reality
	Summary
4 World War II: The Revolution in Weaponry
	Surprise or Upheaval?
	Five New Tactical Problems
	A Tactical Model of Carrier Warfare
	Resolution of Tactical Problems
	Summary
5 World War II: The Revolution in Sensors
	Scouting Measures and Countermeasures
	Radar
	Night Surface Actions in the Solomons
	The Solomons: A Conclusion
	Radar and Air Defense
	Submarine and Sensors
	Tactical Interaction between Land and Sea Forces
6 After World War II
	New Kinds of Naval Operations
	Purposes of Naval Operations
	Functions Performed by Naval Operations
	Operations of Navies at Sea
	Operational Constants, Trends, and Variables
	Two Great Constants: Operational Maneuver and Efficiency of Movement
	A Great Constant: Land Battles Are Much More Frequent
	A Great Trend: Changes in Scouting Effectiveness
	A Recent Trend That Will Become More Extant
	The Greatest Variable: Social and Political Changes
	Part Trend, Part Variable: Fewer Battles at Sea
	Command Processes Govern Campaigns
	Tension between Cohesive Action and Delegated Authority
	Improving Wartime Operations with Campaign Analysis
7 The Evolution of Tactics in the Age of Missile Warfare
	Nuclear Warheads and Long-Range Missiles
	Effect of Nuclear Weapons on Fleet Tactics and Ships
	Tactical Legacies of Strategic Warfare Thinking
	Missiles in Maritime Warfare
	A Campaign Perspective of the Tanker Wars
	Missile Combat between Fleets: The Record
	Lessons of the South Atlantic War
	Casualties at Sea
	Damage per Quantity of Ordnance
	Tactical Considerations of Staying Power
	Littoral Warfare: Measuring Performance
	Littoral Campaigns
	Summary
8 The Great Trends
	On the Principles of War
	The Processes of Combat
	Maneuver
	Firepower
	Counterforce
	Scouting
	Antiscouting
	C2 and C2CM
9 The Great Constants
	Maneuver
	Firepower
	Counterforce
	Scouting
	C2 and C2CM
	Summary of Tactical Trends and Constants
10 The Trends and Constants of Technology
	Technological Pace and Tactical Change
	Secret Weapons and Wartime Surprise
	Peacetime Evolutions and Revolutions
	On Great Transitions
	The Story of the Wampanoag
	Effecting a Transition
	Summary
11 The Great Variables
	Theory, Planning, and the Battle’s Proximity
	Missions and Forces
	Mission: The Link to Strategy
	The Intensity of War
	Missions and Strategies of Inferior Navies
	Forces
	The Correlation of Naval Force
	Payoff: The Synthesis of Force Attributes
12 A Twenty-First-Century Revolution
	The Influence of Information Warfare
	Cryptography and Cyberwarfare
	Deception and Surprise
	Exploitation of Unmanned Vehicles and Countermeasures
	Information Operations for Rescue Missions and Diplomacy
	Exploitation of Computing Machines and Information Flows
	Exploitation of Space Satellites
	Tactical Information Warfare in Combat
	Information Warfare in Education and Training
	Youth and Creativity
13 Modern Tactics and Operations
	Missiles and Maxims
	A Salvo Model of Modern Missile Combat
	Variations and Historical Numbers
	Planning with Salvo Equations
	Salvo Equations for Impending Battle
	Tactical Networks
	Massing for Defense
	A Recapitulation
	A Tactical Focus for the American Navy
	Scouting and Antiscouting
	Shooting and Counterforce
	Command, Control, and C2 Countermeasures
	Integrated Thinking to Attack Effectively First
	Littoral Campaigns: A Land-Sea-Air Interaction
	Summary
14 Log Entries
	Dropping Anchor
	Fleet Tactics
	The Study of Tactics
	Fiction and Forecasts
15 The Battle of the Aegean
	Setting the Scene
	The Battle of the Aegean
	Updating the Scenario
Appendix A. Terminology
Appendix B. Principles of War
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors