Command at Sea
Subtitle: Naval Command and Control Since the Sixteenth Century
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: March 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674016811
Subjects: Maritime history; Naval forces & warfare; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Naval history, Modern; History - Military / War; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Technology & Industrial Arts; Military - Naval; History / Military / Naval; History; General; Command and control systems
Description: "In this ... history of naval warfar, Michael Palmer observes five centuries of dramatic encounters under sail and steam. From reliance on signal flags in the seventeenth century to satellite communications in the twenty-first, admirals looked to the next advance in technology as the one that would allow them to control their forces"--Jacket.