Fleet tactics and naval operations / CAPT Wayne P. Hughes Jr., USN (Ret.) and RADM Robert P. Girrier, USN (Ret.) ; foreword by ADM John Richardson, USN.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Wayne P., 1930- author.

Girrier, Robert, 1961- author.

Series:

U.S. Naval Institute blue & gold professional library

The U.S. Naval Institute blue & gold professional library

Standardized Title:

Fleet tactics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naval tactics--History.

Naval tactics.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 370 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2018]

Summary:

"This book covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends (factors that have changed throughout history), constants (things that have not changed), and variables (things pertinent to each individual battle). The third edition highlights advances in unmanned vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber warfare in peace and war, and other effects of information warfare and how they are changing the ways that battles at sea will be fought and won. It also describes the interaction between naval operations, wartime campaigns, and coalition tactics and their effects on war at sea and points out the growing interaction between land and sea in littoral combat."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Six Cornerstones p. 9

Commentary from Aboukir Bay p. 9

Six Cornerstones p. 15

Sailors Matter Most p. 18

Doctrine: The Glue of Tactics p. 20

To Know Tactics, Know Technology p. 23

The Seat of Purpose Is on the Land p. 24

"A Ship's a Fool to Fight a Fort" p. 26

Attack Effectively First p. 29

Lanchester's Equations p. 30

2 Tactical Development, 1650-1815 p. 35

The Age of Fighting Sail p. 35

The Ship of the Line: Massing Firepower p. 36

The Column: The Means of Control p. 38

The Creative Phase p. 39

The Fighting Instructions Mature p. 42

English Tactics Ossified p. 42

Naval Tactics Restored p. 43

The Influence of Strategy p. 45

3 Tactical Development in Peacetime p. 49

The Golden Age of Tactical Thought, 1865-1914 p. 49

Precursors p. 50

After the Civil War, 1865-85 p. 52

Triumph of the Big Gun, 1900-1916 p. 55

Reemergence of the Fighting Column p. 58

Crossing the T p. 62

Cruising Formation and Tactical Scouting p. 63

Command-and-Control p. 64

The Destroyer Screen and Torpedo Threat p. 67

Turn-of-the-Century Theory and Practice p. 69

Jutland p. 70

Concept versus Reality p. 72

4 World War II: The Revolution in Weaponry p. 76

Surprise or Upheaval? p. 76

Five New Tactical Problems p. 80

A Tactical Model of Carrier Warfare p. 83

Resolution of Tactical Problems p. 91

5 World War II: The Revolution in Sensors p. 99

Scouting Measures and Countermeasures p. 99

Radar p. 102

Night Surface Actions in the Solomons p. 104

The Solomons: A Conclusion p. 113

Radar and Air Defense p. 116

Submarine and Sensors p. 117

Tactical Interaction between Land and Sea Forces p. 120

6 After World War II p. 123

New Kinds of Naval Operations p. 123

Purposes of Naval Operations p. 125

Functions Performed by Naval Operations p. 126

Operations of Navies at Sea p. 127

Operational Constants, Trends, and Variables p. 129

Two Great Constants: Operational Maneuver and Efficiency of Movement p. 130

A Great Constant: Land Battles Are Much More Frequent p. 131

A Great Trend: Changes in Scouring Effectiveness p. 131

A Recent Trend That Will Become More Extant p. 132

The Greatest Variable: Social and Political Changes p. 132

Part Trend, Part Variable: Fewer Battles at Sea p. 135

Command Processes Govern Campaigns p. 136

Tension between Cohesive Action and Delegated Authority p. 138

Improving Wartime Operations with Campaign Analysis p. 139

7 The Evolution of Tactics in the Age of Missile Warfare p. 141

Nuclear Warheads and Long-Range Missiles p. 141

Effect of Nuclear Weapons on Fleet Tactics and Ships p. 142

Tactical Legacies of Strategic Warfare Thinking p. 143

Missiles in Maritime Warfare p. 144

A Campaign Perspective of the Tanker Wars p. 146

Missile Combat between Fleets: The Record p. 147

Lessons of the South Atlantic War p. 149

Casualties at Sea p. 151

Damage per Quantity of Ordnance p. 152

Tactical Considerations of Staying Power p. 157

Littoral Warfare: Measuring Performance p. 158

Littoral Campaigns p. 159

8 The Great Trends p. 163

On the Principles of War p. 163

The Processes of Combat p. 167

Maneuver p. 170

Firepower p. 173

Counterforce p. 178

Scouting p. 184

Antiscouting p. 187

C² and C²CM p. 189

9 The Great Constants p. 192

Maneuver p. 192

Firepower p. 194

Counterforce p. 196

Scouting p. 198

C² and C²CM p. 200

Summary of Tactical Trends and Constants p. 210

10 The Trends and Constants of Technology p. 214

Technological Pace and Tactical Change p. 214

Secret Weapons and Wartime Surprise p. 215

Peacetime Evolutions and Revolutions p. 217

On Great Transitions p. 220

The Story of the Wampanoag p. 222

Effecting a Transition p. 224

11 The Great Variables p. 228

Theory, Planning, and the Battles Proximity p. 228

Missions and Forces p. 230

Mission: The Link to Strategy p. 230

The Intensity of War p. 233

Missions and Strategies of Inferior Navies p. 237

The Correlation of Naval Force p. 241

Payoff: The Synthesis of Force Attributes p. 246

12 A Twenty-First-Century Revolution p. 248

The Influence of Information Warfare p. 248

Cryptography and Cyberwarfare p. 250

Deception and Surprise p. 250

Exploitation of Unmanned Vehicles and Countermeasures p. 253

Information Operations for Rescue Missions and Diplomacy p. 254

Exploitation of Computing Machines and Information Flows p. 254

Exploitation of Space Satellites p. 256

Tactical Information Warfare in Combat p. 257

Information Warfare in Education and Training p. 258

Youth and Creativity p. 260

13 Modern Tactics and Operations p. 262

Missiles and Maxims p. 262

A Salvo Model of Modern Missile Combat p. 263

Variations and Historical Numbers p. 269

Planning with Salvo Equations p. 272

Salvo Equations for Impending Battle p. 274

Tactical Networks p. 279

Massing for Defense p. 280

A Recapitulation p. 284

A Tactical Focus for the American Navy p. 286

Scouting and Antiscouting p. 287

Shooting and Counterforce p. 288

Command, Control, and C² Countermeasures p. 289

Integrated Thinking to Arrack Effectively First p. 290

Littoral Campaigns: A Land-Sea-Air Interaction p. 291

14 Log Entries p. 294

Dropping Anchor p. 294

Fleet Tactics p. 294

The Study of Tactics p. 300

Fiction and Forecasts p. 302

15 The Battle of the Aegean p. 306

The Battle of the Aegean p. 306

Updating the Scenario p. 330.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682473375

1682473376

OCLC:

1027769745