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Information at Sea - Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa (Hardcover, New)
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Information at Sea - Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa (Hardcover, New)
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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The brain of a modern warship is its combat information center
(CIC). Data about friendly and enemy forces pour into this nerve
center, contributing to command decisions about firing,
maneuvering, and coordinating. Timothy S. Wolters has written the
first book to investigate the history of the CIC and the many other
command and control systems adopted by the U.S. Navy from the Civil
War to World War II. What institutional ethos spurred such
innovation? Information at Sea tells the fascinating stories of the
naval and civilian personnel who developed an array of technologies
for managing information at sea, from signal flares and radio to
encryption machines and radar. Wolters uses previously untapped
archival sources to explore how one of America's most
technologically oriented institutions addressed information
management before the advent of the digital computer. He argues
that the human-machine systems used to coordinate forces were as
critical to naval successes in World War II as the ships and
commanders more familiar to historians.
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