Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars

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This study, then, looks at how six technologies facilitated and frustrated navies in their pursuit of victory. Losing battleships to mines or torpedoes without inflicting similar losses on the enemy would give the enemy an advantage that could be overcome only—if ever—by years of costly naval construction.

For this reason, technological solutions to global warming will need to be coupled with international laws and taxation schemes that ensure that fossil fuels and trees stay in the ground. Since the conflicts of the 1970s and 1980s, as networked and distributed systems, drones, artificial intelligence, and directed energy and magnetic weapons have come into use or development, there has not been a single case of peer-to-peer combat between major navies.

The dreadnought battleship was, in 1914, the alpha naval technology upon which victory at sea was supposed to depend. Those cases readily showed the complications that arose from politics, interservice rivalry, national competition, and policy decisions—particularly on the priority of capital investment. The armored gunnery platform reached its acme of power and influence and imperceptibly began to fade in importance. A goal of this book was to set forth the principles that govern the successful development, introduction and use of naval technology. They categorize their six case studies across three uses: weapons (mines and torpedoes), tools (radio and radar), and platforms (submarines and aircraft).

Computer based systems whilst bringing efficiencies in operations, also expose users to increasing levels of vulnerability. The chapters on mines, torpedoes and submarines are particularly germane given heightened anxieties regarding possible conflict with China.Mines were used both offensively and defensively during World War I where they were produced and laid by the tens of thousands. Soon, the United States was at war and these vehicles, which quickly received the nickname “jeep,” were carrying Allied troops around battle zones all over the globe. It also provides some stimulus for consideration by those planning the future of navies, in an inceasingly complex and challenging world.

It can never be done,” said Danish physicist Niels Bohr, “unless you turn the United States into one huge factory. O'Hara's work has also appeared in many periodicals and annuals including Naval History, Warship, World War II Magazine, and Storia Militare. Three companies built prototypes—the Ford Motor Company, Willys-Overland, and the American Bantam Car Company.discuss how navies developed doctrine and incorporated ancillary technologies to improve the core technology’s effectiveness. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The Confederate armored ship Virginia, a platform, destroyed the wooden vessels of the Union navy at will. Businesses like Firestone, Goodyear, Goodrich, and US Rubber Company, which had all been working on different formulas for synthetic rubber, agreed to share patents and scientific information with one another so that they could help solve the nation’s rubber crisis. Distances over sea are stated in nautical miles and over land in statute miles unless otherwise specified.