Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars

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We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The same is true of electromagnetic technology and even of advances in the sciences of metallurgy and chemistry that had direct applications to armor and explosives. The authors argue that assessing innovation ultimately must go through the crucible of combat to assess and develop the technology for the purposes of 'securing power at sea.

Each chapter discusses when and where the technologies were first developed, when it was used in war and what navies expected of it. Neither ProQuest nor its licensors make any representations or warranties with respect to the translations. Once the technology existed, however, bottom-up experimentation and lessons learned were the quickest ways to develop effective exploitation methods. Also their more limited industrial capcity meant that losses could not be readily provided to sustain operations.Moreover, the chapters are provided with useful illustrations, pictures, and graphics that emphasize the authors’ points. A strong fleet would decline to take risks, as did Jellicoe at Jutland, even with the opportunity to win a major victory at hand. This book looks at how selected world navies incorporated certain technologies into their ships, operations and doctrine. A secret memorandum from a British destroyer captain to his superior officer dated 26 December 1942 noted that he had at his disposal Type 285, 286, and 271 radars, sonar, a radio interception device, very high frequency radio, shore radar plots, enemy reports from remote sources, an automatic plotting device, and several binocular-enhanced sets of eyes.

It also had to be able to climb a 45-degree slope fully loaded and make it through water up to 18 inches deep. Kuehn, professor of Military History, US Army Command and General Staff College and author of America's First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the U.

O'Hara is an independent naval historian and the author of thirteen works, including Six Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War, November 1941-March 1942, and Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War, 1914-18, with Leonard R. During the current period, naval technology has incorporated atomic energy and progressed to satellites, computers, drones, data networks, and artificial intelligence.

Innovating Victory is a valuable augmentation of our understanding of how technology influences naval warfare. Heinz present new perspectives and explore the process of technological introduction and innovation in a way that is relevant to today’s navies, which face challenges and questions even greater than those of 1904, 1914, and 1939. During the Cold War’s long and grim decades, navies integrated new technologies such as nuclear power, missiles, and computers. You may have access to different export options including Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive and citation management tools like RefWorks and EasyBib. S. customary system of measurement and do not convert measurements given in one system to another, assuming the reader can navigate the metric and customary systems.

For five of the technologies, the exploitation phase occurred in World War II; radio was sufficiently developed by 1914 to be exploited in both wars. We thank our editor at Naval Institute Press, Glenn Griffith, and the wonderful people there for bringing this book to print in such excellent fashion. But even as platforms and systems evolved, the era of certain knowledge—the knowledge that only comes from observing naval technology used in peer-to-peer combat—ended in 1945. Phenomenal advances were made in aeronautics, computing, chemical engineering, medicine and food science. Mines, mine layers, and mine sweepers do not evoke the emotional attachment that flow to aircraft, ships of the line, and submarines with crews admired for their bravery and exploits.