The burden of Trafalgar: decisive battle and naval strategic expectations on the eve of the First World War
BREEMER Jan S
The burden of Trafalgar: decisive battle and naval strategic expectations on the eve of the First World War - Newport R.I.: United States Naval War College, 1993 - 45p. - Newport papers 6 .
Sets out to establish why the Battle of Trafalgar had so much effect on naval strategy in the following hundred years. In particular considers the effect of the last great decisive battle under sail on strategy using very different technolgies and with different objectives. In Nelson's day one tried to capture the opponents ships, by the first world war the objective was to destroy them.
(pbk.)
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
FIRST WORLD WAR
NAVAL OPERATIONS
STRATEGY
The burden of Trafalgar: decisive battle and naval strategic expectations on the eve of the First World War - Newport R.I.: United States Naval War College, 1993 - 45p. - Newport papers 6 .
Sets out to establish why the Battle of Trafalgar had so much effect on naval strategy in the following hundred years. In particular considers the effect of the last great decisive battle under sail on strategy using very different technolgies and with different objectives. In Nelson's day one tried to capture the opponents ships, by the first world war the objective was to destroy them.
(pbk.)
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
FIRST WORLD WAR
NAVAL OPERATIONS
STRATEGY