Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat by Hughes, Wayne P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures and Tables Foreword to the Second Edition Foreword to the First Edition Acknowledgments Introduction

A Second Edition for the Missile Age What about the Information Age? Charting Course What Are Fleet Tactics? Tactics in Naval Operations What a Navy Is For Other Terminology The Readers Organization

1 Six Cornerstones

Prologue Six Cornerstones Men Matter Most Doctrine Is 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

2 Tactical Development in Action: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1650–1815

Introduction The Ship of the Line: The Means of 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, 1865–1914

The Golden Age of Tactical Thought 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: A Weaponry Revolution

Surprise or Upheaval? Five New Tactical Problems A Tactical Model of Carrier Warfare Resolution of Tactical Problems Summary

5 World War II: The Sensory Revolution

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 Evolution of Tactics in the Age of Missile Warfare

Nuclear Warheads and Long-Range Missiles The Effect of Nuclear Weapons on Fleet Tactics and Warship Characteristics Three Tactical Legacies of Strategic Warfare Thinking Missiles in Maritime Warfare A Campaign Perspective of the Tanker Wars The Record of Missile Combat between Fleets Lessons of the South Atlantic War Casualties at Sea Damage per Quantity of Ordnance Tactical Considerations of Staying Power A Measure of Performance for Littoral Warfare Littoral Campaigns Summary

7 The Great Trends

On the Principles of War The Processes of Combat Maneuver Firepower Counterforce Scouting Antiscouting C2 and C2CM

8 The Great Constants

Maneuver Firepower Counterforce Scouting C2 and C2CM Summary of Tactical Trends and Constants

9 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

10 The Great Variables

Theory, Planning, and the Battle’s Proximity Missions and Forces Mission: The Link to Strategy War’s Intensity Missions and Strategies of Inferior Navies Forces The Correlation of Naval Force Payoff: The Synthesis of Force Attributes

11 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 Range-Dependent Model of Modern Naval Combat An Example of Modern Tactics The Merits of the Example: A Summary

12 Anchorage

Dropping Anchor Tactics Weapons and Sensors Planning and Execution Relationships with Strategy The Study of Tactics Fiction and Forecasts Epilogue: The Battle of the Aegean

Appendix A. Terminology Appendix B. Principles of War Bibliography Index

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