Information at Sea : Shipboard Command and Control in the U. S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa.
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- 9781421410845
- 359.3/3041097309041
- V283 .W55 2013
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Flags, Flares, and Lights: A World before Wireless -- 2 Sparks and Arcs: The Navy Adopts Radio -- 3 War and Peace: Coordinating Naval Forces -- 4 A Most Complex Problem: Demanding Information -- 5 Creating the Brain of a Warship: Radar and the CIC -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Archives and Manuscript Collections -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
He argues that the human-machine systems used to coordinate forces were as critical to naval successes in World War II as the ships and commanders more familiar to historians.
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