Fleet Tactics And Naval Operations, Third Edition

✍ Scribed by Wayne Hughes, Robert Girrier

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 502
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

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