Monographie

Carrier battles : command decision in harm's way / Douglas V. Smith

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Carrier battles : command decision in harm's way / Douglas V. Smith
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Annapolis (Md.) : Naval Institute press, 2020
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XXXIII-346 p.) : ill., cartes, graph., photogr., tabl. ; 23 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-68247-502-7
  • 1-68247-502-6
EAN
  • 9781682475027 br.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 940.545 973
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [299]-325. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Preparing for war : naval education between the World Wars The battle of the Coral Sea The Battle of Midway The fight for Guadalcanal : the Battle of the Eastern Solomons The Battle of Santa Cruz The Battle of the Philippine Sea
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "Carrier Battles considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. Noting that none of the navy's most significant World War II leaders were commissioned before the Spanish-American War and none participated in any important offensive operations in World War I, Douglas Smith examines the premise that education, rather than experience in battle, accounts for that transformation. In this book, Smith evaluates his premise by focusing on the five carrier battles of World War II to determine the extent to which the inter-war education of the major operational commanders translated into their decision processes, and the extent that their interaction during their educational experiences transformed them from risk-adverse to risk-accepting in their operational concepts."
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