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Iron Admirals - Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
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Iron Admirals - Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions in Military Studies
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Andidora tells the story of four men who successfully commanded
battlefleets in the 20th century: Japan's Heihachiro Togo,
England's John Jellicoe, and America's William Halsey and Raymond
Spruance. This study provides personality profiles and detailed
accounts of their major battles. Analyzing their command decisions
based on what each commander knew or could have reasonably inferred
at the time decisions were made, Andidora compares their
accomplishments to those of Horatio Nelson, who delivered stunning
naval victories for England during the Napoleonic Wars. However, he
concludes that the Nelsonian standard is inappropriate in the
modern naval environment due to the increased size and
technological complexity of modern fleets and the political
imperative to preserve costly and strategically significant naval
assets. Trained in England and acquiring the skill and spirit of
Nelson's heirs, Togo annihilated his Russian opponents at the
Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War and, therefore,
produced the 20th century's only facsimile of Nelson's Trafalgar.
Despite heavy losses against a numerically inferior German Navy at
Jutland, Jellicoe's single-minded adherence to an unpopular
strategy would prove instrumental in achieving final victory in the
First World War. Although strikingly different in personality and
leadership style, Halsey and Spruance would both do their part in
the naval battles of the Second World War. In the Battle of the
Philippine Sea, Spruance would deal Japanese naval aviation a blow
from which it would never recover; while at the Battle of Leyte
Gulf, Halsey would essentially eliminate the Japanese navy as an
effective fighting force.
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