Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. This work looks at how the world's navies incorporated new technologies into their ships, practices, and doctrine.

Also their more limited industrial capcity meant that losses could not be readily provided to sustain operations. They show that successful innovations also required a corresponding change in the navy’s operating doctrine. Many radios in a network allow rapid communications for a variety of tasks and common understanding of the situation.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.

O’Hara is the author or co-author of more than 10 books, mainly on topics of World War I and II naval warfare. One of the key messages from the book is the need for a combination of scientists and specialists to work in collaboration with the end users to ensure a successful and effective outcome. The Japanese began to use mines offensively in the early twentieth century against the Russian fleet during the Russo-Japanese war. Taxation and rationing are effective strategies – but they will be hard to stomach on the scale required.This would help answer the question of whether those principles were generalizable enough to apply developing technology today. It is true that some smaller conflicts and incidents, such as the 1982 Falklands war, campaigns fought in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Sirte during the 1980s, and the Arab-Israeli and Indo-Pakistani wars, offered flickers of insight, but none of these involved first-tier naval forces facing each other in a state of total war. Obviously, radio, radar, and aircraft are not technological developments exclusive to naval warfare so the authors found it necessary to discuss the development of these key innovations in broader terms that included the development of land-based systems. A goal of this book was to set forth the principles that govern the successful development, introduction and use of naval technology. Soon, the United States was at war and these vehicles, which quickly received the nickname “jeep,” were carrying Allied troops around battle zones all over the globe.