Command at Sea
Naval Command and Control Since the Sixteenth Century
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Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7671287M
- ISBN-139780674016811
- ISBN-100674016815
- OCLC Control Number56347606
- OCLC Control Numbercommandatseanava00palm
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004054116
- LibraryThing21891
- Goodreads1565635
Classifications
- LCCVB212 .P36 2005
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.
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