"This book covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends (factors that have changed throughout history), constants (things that have not changed), and variables (things pertinent to each individual battle). The third edition highlights advances in unmanned vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare in peace and war, and other effects of information warfare and how they are changing the ways that battles at sea will be fought and won. It also describes the interaction between naval operations, wartime campaigns, and coalition tactics and their effects on war at sea and points out the growing interaction between land and sea in littoral combat."--Provided by publisher.

--Introduction.-- A Third Edition for the Cyber and Robotics Age -- Fleet Tactics : A Definition -- More Terminology -- A Pre-Underway Tour -- 1. Six Cornerstones. --Commentary from Aboukir Bay -- Six Cornerstones -- Sailors Matter Most -- Doctrine : The Glue of Tactics -- To Know Tactics, Know Technology -- The Seat of Purpose Is on the Land -- "A Ship's a Fool to Fight a Fort" -- Attack Effectively First -- Lanchester's Equations -- -- 2. Tactical Development, 1650-1815. -- The Age of Fighting Sail -- The Ship of the Line : Massing Firepower -- The Column : The Means of Control -- The Creative Phase -- The Fighting Instructions Mature -- English Tactics Ossified -- Naval Tactics Restored -- The Influence of Strategy -- Summary -- -- 3. Tactical Development in Peacetime. -- The Golden Age of Tactical Thought, 1865-1914 -- Precursors -- After the Civil War, 1865-85 -- Triumph of the Big Gun, 1900-1916 -- Reemergence of the Fighting Column -- Crossing the T -- Cruising Formation and Tactical Scouting -- Command-and-Control -- The Destroyer Screen and Torpedo Threat -- Turn-of-the-Century Theory and Practice -- Jutland -- Concept versus Reality -- Summary -- 4. World War II : The Revolution in Weaponry. -- Surprise or Upheaval? -- Five New Tactical Problems -- A Tactical Model of Carrier Warfare -- Resolution of Tactical Problems -- Summary -- 5. World War II : The Revolution in Sensors. -- Scouting Measures and Countermeasures -- Radar -- Night Surface Actions in the Solomons -- The Solomons : A Conclusion -- Radar and Air Defense -- Submarine and Sensors -- Tactical Interaction between Land and Sea Forces -- 6. After World War II. New Kinds of Naval Operations -- Purposes of Naval Operations -- Functions Performed by Naval Operations -- Operations of Navies at Sea -- Operational Constants, Trends, and Variables -- Two Great Constants : Operational Maneuver and Efficiency of Movement -- A Great Constant : Land Battles Are Much More Frequent -- A Great Trend: Changes in Scouring Effectiveness -- A Recent Trend That Will Become More Extant -- The Greatest Variable : Social and Political Changes -- Part Trend, Part Variable : Fewer Battles at Sea -- Command Processes Govern Campaigns -- Tension between Cohesive Action and Delegated Authority -- Improving Wartime Operations with Campaign Analysis -- 7. The Evolution of Tactics in the Age of Missile Warfare. -- Nuclear Warheads and Long-Range Missiles -- Effect of Nuclear Weapons on Fleet Tactics and Ships -- Tactical Legacies of Strategic Warfare Thinking -- Missiles in Maritime Warfare -- A Campaign Perspective of the Tanker Wars -- Missile Combat between Fleets : The Record -- Lessons of the South Atlantic War -- Casualties at Sea -- Damage per Quantity of Ordnance -- Tactical Considerations of Staying Power -- Littoral Warfare : Measuring Performance -- Littoral Campaigns -- Summary -- 8. The Great Trends. On the Principles of War -- The Processes of Combat -- Maneuver -- Firepower -- Counterforce -- Scouting -- Antiscouting -- C2 and C2CM -- 9. The Great Constants. Maneuver -- Firepower -- Counterforce -- Scouting -- C2 and C2CM -- Summary of Tactical Trends and Constants -- 10. The Trends and Constants of Technology. -- Technological Pace and Tactical Change -- Secret Weapons and Wartime Surprise -- Peacetime Evolutions and Revolutions -- On Great Transitions -- The Story of the Wampanoag -- Effecting a Transition -- Summary -- 11. The Great Variables. -- Theory, Planning, and the Battles Proximity -- Missions and Forces -- Mission : The Link to Strategy -- The Intensity of War -- Missions and Strategies of Inferior Navies -- Forces -- The Correlation of Naval Force v -- Payoff : The Synthesis of Force Attributes -- 12. A Twenty-First-Century Revolution. -- The Influence of Information Warfare -- Cryptography and Cyberwarfare -- Deception and Surprise -- Exploitation of Unmanned Vehicles and Countermeasures -- Information Operations for Rescue Missions and Diplomacy -- Exploitation of Computing Machines and Information Flows -- Exploitation of Space Satellites -- Tactical Information Warfare in Combat -- Information Warfare in Education and Training -- Youth and Creativity -- 13. Modern Tactics and Operations. -- Missiles and Maxims -- A Salvo Model of Modern Missile Combat -- Variations and Historical Numbers -- Planning with Salvo Equations -- Salvo Equations for Impending Battle -- Tactical Networks -- Massing for Defense -- A Recapitulation -- A Tactical Focus for the American Navy -- Scouting and Antiscouting -- Shooting and Counterforce -- Command, Control, and C2 Countermeasures -- Integrated Thinking to Attack Effectively First -- Littoral Campaigns : A Land-Sea-Air Interaction -- Summary -- 14. Log Entries. -- Dropping Anchor -- Fleet Tactics -- The Study of Tactics -- Fiction and Forecasts -- 15. The Battle of the Aegean. -- Setting the Scene -- The Battle of the Aegean -- Updating the Scenario -- Appendix A : Terminology -- Appendix B : Principles of War.

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