Command at Sea : Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century / Michael A. Palmer.
Palmer, Michael A., author.
2009
VB212 -- P36 2007eb
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Title Command at Sea : Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century / Michael A. Palmer.
Author Palmer, Michael A., author.
ISBN 9780674041912
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041912
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (400 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674041912 doi
Call Number VB212 -- P36 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 359.33041
Summary In this grand history of naval warfare, Palmer observes five centuries of dramatic encounters under sail and steam. From reliance on signal flags in the seventeenth century to satellite communications in the twenty-first, admirals looked to the next advance in technology as the one that would allow them to control their forces. But while abilities to communicate improved, Palmer shows how other technologies simultaneously shrank admirals' windows of decision. The result was simple, if not obvious: naval commanders have never had sufficient means or time to direct subordinates in battle.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Battle Maps
Prologue: A Regular Confusion
1. Land Warfare Afloat: Before 1650
2. The Anglo-Dutch Wars
3. At the Dawn of the Enlightenment
4. The Conundrum of the Line Ahead
5. The Advent of Numerary Signaling Systems
6. The Zenith of the Age of Fighting Sail
7. The Age of Steam through the Great War
8. From 1918 through the Second World War
9. The Cold War and Beyond
Conclusion: The Crucial Paradox of Knowledge
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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