Lecture of Opportunity | Rear Adm. James Goldrick: Over the Horizon Warfare at Sea
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 02/11/2016

Rear Adm. James Goldrick, Royal Australian Navy, "Learning​ ​How to Do Over the Horizon Warfare at Sea: The Clash of Emergent Communications​ Technology and the Naval Culture of Command in the First World War," Lecture of Opportunity, U.S. Naval War College, Oct. 6, 2016.

This lecture will look at how the introduction of radio and​ the consequent extension of tactics well over the horizon clashed with the​ Royal Navy's traditional approach to command at sea. It will examine the failures during the First​ World War and the successful efforts of the Royal Navy to reform.

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