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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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