Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars

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New technologies can also be dead ends, and there are many examples of navies clinging to an inferior technology or not getting a new technology until too late. By 1945, within the span of a Jutland officer’s service career, basic naval technologies included radar and guided weapons.

If you have turned it off manually in your browser, please enable it to better experience this site. Ask, for example, what is a weapon without a target, or a platform without a weapon, or a tool without a use?Having made these observations the authors nevertheless do make some broad statements on current capabilities. A raft that transports warriors over water is one expression of naval technology; a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine is another.

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He represented the United States at Operation Torch 75th anniversary commemorations held in Algiers and Oran, Algeria. While technology obviously played an important part in the outcome of the First and Second World wars the outcome was largely determined by the significantly greater industrial capacities of the US and British empire, together with their better access to resources in the form of finances, people and raw materials. They show that successful innovations also required a corresponding change in the navy’s operating doctrine. The reader will appreciate that these general stages are not precise, but they are nonetheless helpful in framing the story of each technology.