Would you care to suggest titles from either source or make any comments as to which might be the most useful? Scott Palter www.finalswordproductions.com ...
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Scott Palter asks, regarding the websites for NDU Press and NWC Press I ... From a science fiction and/or gaming standpoint, nothing immediately comes to mind....
... Wow - I knew about Corbett's historical works on the RN, but had never even heard of Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, let alone the "Green Pamphlet." ...
... So let me put in a recommendation for the air-combat equivalent of Hughes' "Fleet Tactics": Robert Shaw's "Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering". ...
Thanks to both of you So many books, so little time. Back to packing orders and printing HH RB's....happy new year to one and all. Scott Palter ...
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... By and large, Corbett builds on Clausewitz, and largely rebuts Mahan. Personally, I think Corbett is a much deeper thinker than Mahan. It's interesting...
... Shaw's book is extremely popular in the computer flight-sim community as well - for good reason. :) Shaw's focus is on teaching combat pilots how to think...
... debates, ... From your description, even if you were pro-fighter it doesn't sound like it would be directly applicable to combat in space, at least ...
... LOL! Come to think of it, both Mahan and Mackinder are probably relevant not so much for whatever validity they had but for their influence on 20th c....
Hey I always blank on the title of the starship combat game David Weber designed back in the day. I'm sure somebody can tell me (maybe even David himself!)....
... That'd be 2nd ed. Starfire; the boxed edition from TFG. The tech progression in the HH books follows the pattern he set up in Starfire. The biggest...
... He had a hand in several editions of Starfire: http://www.starfiredesign.com/starfire/history.html ... And, given your time at PhilCon, you're doubtless...
... [laugh] That's actually how Keith ended up on the list. Keith sort of orbited around SITS at PhilCon, meaning his table, while not always the same table,...
... In outline (and in addition to Shaw, I should credit years of absorbing lessons on birds from my bird-watcher parents - lessons absorbed through osmosis,...
... I have watched these engagements. Mainly I was anthropomorphizing ("Jeez, those little birds are brave!"), but what you describe fits my recollection of...
On Monday, January 2, 2006, at 05:13 PM, sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com ... Now THAT was fascinating, made me want to buy a copy of Air War of of EBay... ;-) But...
... Ah, so it's like domestic animal raising... Fencing off parts of the Ocean and such... ... Fusion is available... It just works best on land, or in a...
... I am not enough of a _Starfire_ player to confirm this, but I am told that (1) they branched at some point, and the backgrounds are no longer in synch, and...
... I can give you what I think the big thing was. [CAUTION: I'm using the extra broad brush here.] Mahan looks at a picture through a toilet paper tube and...
... Also recommended: Gorschkov's "Seapower and the State". I'd be very surprised if that wasn't part of the curriculum. What's your position at the NWC BTW? I...
... From: Tim Sterrett I don't remember seeing a peregrine turn on a small bird. Birds seem to know about falcons, and small birds seem to know about ...
... the ... necessary, ... Which sort of explains Jackie Fisher, doesn't it? I only learned relatively recently that he did not simply regard battlecruisers...
... That depends on which navy you look at - the German navy of WWI viewed anti-destroyer gunnery as the battleships problem, and the destroyers role as...
... I seem to recall that the Germans went on calling their destroyers large torpedo boats till a fairly late date, and they developed the light cruiser...
... It's interesting that the RN in the interwar period built destroyer leader specifically for this purpose, rather than using cruisers. I presume they found...
... And a cruiser built for the destroyer-flag mission would have lacked many of the qualities the RN thought a "true" cruiser should have. Though this also...
... For similar reason the treaties would affect this - the London treaties regulated cruiser and destroyer construction as well as capital ship construction....
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