Maritime Strategy and Sea Control: Theory and Practice (Cass by Milan Vego

By Milan Vego

This ebook makes a speciality of the most important naval strategic targets of acquiring and retaining sea control.


During instances of struggle, sea regulate, or the facility of fighters to get pleasure from naval dominance, performs a vital function in that side’s skill to realize total victory. This ebook explains and analyzes in a lot larger aspect sea keep an eye on in all its complexities, and describes the most equipment of acquiring and preserving it. development at the perspectives of naval classical thinkers, this ebook makes use of historic examples to demonstrate the most equipment of sea keep watch over. every one bankruptcy makes a speciality of a selected technique, together with destroying the enemy forces through a decisive motion, destroying enemy forces over time-attrition, containing enemy fleet, choke aspect keep an eye on, and shooting vital enemy's positions/basing quarter, the purpose is to supply a finished thought and perform of the fight for sea keep watch over on the operational point. it's going to as a result supply a consultant to practitioners on easy methods to plan and behavior operational struggle at sea.


The e-book may be of a lot curiosity to scholars of naval approach, defence reviews and defense studies.

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