Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third Edition. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third Edition

The revised edition of this indispensable work still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends constants, and variables. Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations continues to emphasize combat data, including how hitting and damage rates and maneuvering have been conducted to achieve an advantage over the centuries. The third edition highlights the current swift advances in unmanned vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber warfare in peace and war, and other effects of information warfare, and how they are changing the ways battles at sea will be fought and won.

Capt. Wayne P. Hughes Jr., USN (Ret.) served thirty years on active duty, commanding a minesweeper, a destroyer, and a large training command. In retirement, he served more than thirty years at the Naval Postgraduate School in many teaching, research, and administrative capacities and was Dean Emeritus. He passed away in 2019.

​Rear Adm. Robert Girrier, USN (RET.), is founder and managing member of Strategic Navigation LLC, a consulting company. Serving over thirty-three years in the Navy, he stood-up and led the Navy staff 's first-ever office for unmanned warfare systems. While on active duty he served as Deputy Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet, commanded two carrier strike groups, served as the Navy's global mine warfare commander, commanded a forward-deployed destroyer squadron, guided missile destroyer, and a mine countermeasures ship. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.