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Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars, studies how the
world's navies incorporated new technologies into their ships,
their practices, and their doctrine. It does this by examining six
core technologies fundamental to twentieth-century naval warfare
including new platforms (submarines and aircraft), new weapons
(torpedoes and mines), and new tools (radar and radio). Each
chapter considers the state of a subject technology when it was
first used in war and what navies expected of it. It then looks at
the way navies discovered and developed the technology's best use,
in many cases overcoming disappointed expectations. It considers
how a new technology threatened its opponents, not to mention its
users, and how those threats were managed. Innovating Victory shows
that the use of technology is more than introducing and mastering a
new weapon or system. Differences in national resources, force
mixtures, priorities, perceptions, and missions forced nations to
approach the problems presented by new technologies in different
ways. Navies that specialized in specific technologies often held
advantages over enemies in some areas but found themselves
disadvantaged in others. Vincent P. O'Hara and Leonard Heinz
present new perspectives and explore the process of technological
introduction and innovation in a way that is relevant to today's
navies, which face challenges and questions even greater than those
of 1904, 1914, and 1939.
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