Overview

The revised edition of Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends constants, and variables. Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations continues to emphasize combat data, including how hitting and damage rates and maneuvering have been conducted to achieve an advantage over the centuries. The third edition highlights the current swift 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 battles at sea will be fought and won. 

About the Author

Wayne Hughes

Capt. Wayne P. Hughes Jr., USN (Ret.) was professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Operations and Information Sciences of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Author of Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat Second Edition, as well as numerous articles, he is renowned as one of the foremost authorities on naval tactics.

Additional Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 408 pages
Illustrations: By CAPT Wayne P. Hughes Jr., USN (Ret.) and RADM Robert P. Girrier, USN (Ret.); Foreword by ADM John Richardson, USN
Published: June 15, 2018
ISBN-10: 1682473376
ISBN-13: 9781682473375
Product Dimensions: 9 × 6 × 1 in
Product Weight: 23 oz