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Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars

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Each chapter discusses when and where the technologies were first developed, when it was used in war and what navies expected of it. New technologies can also be dead ends, and there are many examples of navies clinging to an inferior technology or not getting a new technology until too late.

It also traces the evolution of each technology and how it was eventually used compared to navies original intentions. The bibliography is well-organized, showing that the authors made liberal use of official histories and primary documents and hundreds of articles, chapters, and books by well-respected scholars. Not only are the technical hurdles and doctrinal changes discussed, but so are the operational challenges and the adversary’s response or adoption. Modern naval technology is the sum of the elements involved in the invention, development, production, and use of specialized weapons, tools, and platforms to fight at sea.By 1914, all major navies used radio communications but also learned to listen to adversary radio transmissions. Those cases readily showed the complications that arose from politics, interservice rivalry, national competition, and policy decisions—particularly on the priority of capital investment.

A paradox can exist with technologies that help us do more with less: they can increase consumption of the very resources one is trying to conserve. So too was the tactical goal of the commanding admirals: to concentrate their firepower through maneuver while preventing their opponents from doing the same.The Confederate armored ship Virginia, a platform, destroyed the wooden vessels of the Union navy at will. S. Navy, 1898-1945 Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars studies how the world's navies incorporated new technologies into their ships, their practices, and their doctrine.

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