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Title: Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice by Wayne P., Jr. Hughes ISBN: 0-87021-558-2 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: November, 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Appiled Seapower
Comment: I read this work will reading Mahan (whom Huges is very critical of) and found them to both contain the part the other lacks. Mahan, focusing on national policy, neglects the importance of tactics and their evolution. Hughes, however, states that tactics have universal pillers that remain despite the evloution in technology.
Hughes shows that the most curcial part of tactics is the situtation; his analsis that Nelson's strength was knowning his foe and his own abilities led to victory more than mere luck smacks of Sun Tzu's know thy enemy. He shows that what worked in one place does not always work everywhere.
Also, he shows how tactics changed with tech (from the sailing age to mondern times) and still kept their truths. his five pillers of sea power are just as vital today as they were for Cromwell.
As an aspiring Naval officer, I found his work both intellectally intreasting and at the same time well writen with theroy backed by pratice; Hughes shows how these princples played out on the battlefield.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book I have seen on Naval tactics
Comment: Although written as a text book. A person can read this book and get an appreciation of the problems of naval warfare particularly involving fleet. Many historical problems that I have heard. Such as why the German's in WW1 did not use their fleet much more and why the Japanese kept splitting their fleet in WW2 are explained here very well.
I have learnt a lot from this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excelent summary of tactical principles
Comment: The book is a very good summary about five principles of naval tactics (Scouting, Command, Doctrine, Information, Training ) that could apply almost wherever there are forces in conflict or complex actions integrated by several people. These principles are clarified with historical battles and their results. It also include the evolution of naval tactis with techology.
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Title: The Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy and Analysis (Rand Corporation Research Study) by Carl H. Builder, Sam Nunn ISBN: 0801837766 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda by Alan J. Kuperman ISBN: 0815700857 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: 30 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam 1965-1972 by Marshall L. III Michel ISBN: 1557505853 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Players & Issues in International Aid (Kumarian Press Books on International Development) by Paula Hoy ISBN: 1565490738 Publisher: Kumarian Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations Today by James P. Muldoon, Richard Reitano, Joann F. Aviel ISBN: 0813399580 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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