The Face of Naval Battle The Human Experience

This book examines how the human involvement in naval warfare has developed over the 20th Century and how it is likely to evolve over the first part of the 21st Century.

John Reeve is a senior lecturer at the Australian Defence Force Academy. David Stevens is the director of naval historical studies in the Australia's Maritime Studies Programme and the author of U-Boat Far from Home.

Foreword

Vice Admiral C.A. Ritchie, AO, RAN

v

Notes on contributors

ix

Illustrations, figures and table

xvi

Acronyms and abbreviations

xviii

PART I SETTING THE SCENE

1 Introduction: an anatomy of the face of naval battle

3

(35)

John Reeve

2 Operational command at sea

38

(17)

Andrew Gordon

PART II ASPECTS OF THE FACE OF NAVAL BATTLE

3 Western advisors and Chinese sailors in the 1894-95 Sumo Japanese War

55

(15)

Bruce Elleman

4 The commander in crisis: Graf Spee and the German East Asian Cruiser Squadron in 1914

70

(22)

Peter Overlack

5 Sailors and seaborne soldiers in the defence of Australia, 1914-2001

92

(21)

Russell Parkin

6 The treatment of casualties from the Sydney-Emden action

113

(14)

Michael Dowsett

7 The aircraft carrier: the experience of its conception, procurement and operation

127

(22)

David Hobbs

8 The Second World War, Korea and Vietnam: a personal perspective on naval warfare

149

(12)

Guy Griffiths

9 Aboard HMAS Hobart in the Java Sea area in 1942

161

(8)

Gordon Johnson

10 'The Gunner': J.E. Macdonnell and the face of naval battle

169

(13)

Peter Stanley

11 US submarines at war: the recollections of Motor Machinist's Mate Thomas R. Parks, USN

182

(18)

David Jones

12 The strain of the bridge: the Second World War diaries of Commander A.EC. Layard, DSO, DSC, RN

200

(19)

Michael Whitby

13 The pursuit of realism: British anti-submarine tactics and training to counter the fast submarine, 1944-52

219

(21)

Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones

14 Command at sea in war and peace: an Australian experience during the Gulf War and after

240

(23)

Lee Cordher

PART III THE WARRIOR AND HIS FOE

15 The faceless foe: perceptions of the enemy in modern naval battle

263

(22)

David Stevens

16 Stress in war: the warrior's confrontation with the spectre of Death

285

(21)

Colin Wastell

17 The face of the future naval battle

306

(13)

Peter Jones

Notes

319

(32)

Index

351

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