Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: command, century, sixteenth, naval, sea, control
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-03-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674016815
ISBN-13: 9780674016811

Commanders at sea struggle not only with the unpredictability of natural elements, but also with a shroud of uncertainty often referred to as the "fog of war." Over the centuries most admirals yielded to the natural temptation to find in new technologies a means to assert centralized control over their forces. But other commanders have recognized the fog for what it is: a constant level of uncertainty resistant to mere technological solution. In this grand history of naval warfare, Michael Palmer observes five centuries of dramatic encounters under sail and steam. From reliance on signal

Authors:Steven C. Bankes, Carl H. Builder, Richard Nordin,
Publisher: Rand Publishing
Keywords: command, control, practice, theory, concepts, derived
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-10-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0833024507
ISBN-13: 9780833024503

The qualities of commanders and their ideas are more important to a general theory of command and control than are the technical and architectural qualities of their computers and communications systems. This theory separates the art of command and control (C2) from the hardware and software systems that support C2. It centers on the idea of a command concept, a commander’s vision of a military operation that informs the making of command decisions during that operation. The theory suggests that the essential communications up and down the chain of command can (and should) be limited

Author: William McFee
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: command
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2005-06-23
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1417987464
ISBN-13: 9781417987467

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Author: Martin van Creveld
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: war, command
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 0674144414
ISBN-13: 9780674144415

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns--among others, Napoleon at

Author: Kimberly Kagan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: command, eye
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-01-10
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0472031287
ISBN-13: 9780472031283

Published in 1976, Sir John Keegan’s "The Face of Battle" was a ground-breaking work in military history studies, providing narrative techniques that served as a model for countless subsequent scholarly and popular military histories. Keegan’s approach to understanding battles stressed the importance of small unit actions and personal heroism, an approach exemplified in the narratives produced by reporters embedded with American combat troops in Iraq. Challenging Keegan’s seminal work, Kimberly Kagan’s "The Eye of Command" offers a new approach to studying and narrating

Author: David Poyer
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: command
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312318367
ISBN-13: 9780312318369

After receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in Iraq, Commander Daniel V. Lenson’s new orders read: take over as skipper of USS Thomas W. Horn. His mission: prepare the Tomahawk-equipped strike destroyer and her crew for the Red Sea, where she’ll join an international task force searching for weapons of mass destruction. But this will be no routine deployment. Horn will be the first US Navy warship ever to deploy with an integrated male and female crew-a controversial and politically explosive experiment that will raise questions about morale, behavior, training, s

Author: Billy Hornsby
Publisher: Creation House
Keywords: command, second, success
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-11-08
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1591859220
ISBN-13: 9781591859222

Too often people have the mentality that second place means second class. Pastor Billy Hornsby sets out to debunk that mentality by showing there are many benefits in being second in command.Hornsby explains that what makes the number-two position difficult is often caused by the environment we grow up in. For the most part, it is an egotistical world that only looks out for number one. He points out this is a dangerous mindset. Everyone is subordinate to someone—some board, some coach, some law, some other leader. To think that there is no hope of making a huge difference in this world from