Author: United States. Navy Department. Naval Operations OfficePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor, the Memoirs of Admiral James O. Richardson USN (retired).
Author: United States. Navy Department. Naval Operations OfficePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Magnificent Mavericks
Author: Elizabeth BabcockA History of Control Engineering, 1930-1955
Author: Stuart BennettPublisher: IET
ISBN: 9780863412998
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Traces the consolidation of a specialty, as the various feedback control devices used in the 1930s for aircraft and ships, the telephone system, and analogue computers, were brought together during World War II to form what is now known as the classical frequency response methods of analysis and design, and applied to non-linear, sampled-data, and stochastic systems. Follows the field's development through the post-war addition of the root locus method to the introduction of the state-space methods of modern control. Distributed by INSPEC. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
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Category : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Naval Historical Publications in Print
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Use of Naval Force in Crises
Author: Joseph F. BouchardProfessional Journal of the United States Army
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Military Review
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes
Author: Donald ChisholmPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804735254
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
This monumental study provides an innovative and powerful means for understanding institutions by applying problem solving theory to the creation and elaboration of formal organizational rules and procedures. Based on a meticulously researched historical analysis of the U.S. Navys officer personnel system from its beginnings to 1941, the book is informed by developments in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, operations research, and management science. It also offers important insights into the development of the American administrative state, highlighting broader societal conflicts over equity, efficiency, and economy. Considering the Navys personnel system as an institution, the book shows that changes in that system resulted from a long-term process of institutional design, in which formal rules and procedures are established and elaborated. Institutional design is here understood as a problem-solving process comprising day-to-day efforts of many decision makers to resolve the difficulties that block completion of their tasks. The officer personnel system is treated as a problem of organized complexity, with many components interacting in systematic, intricate ways, its structure usually imperfectly understood by the participants. Consequently, much problem solving entails decomposing the larger problem into smaller, more manageable components, closing open constraints, and balancing competing value premises. The author finds that decision makers are unlikely to generate many alternatives, since searching for existing solutions elsewhere or inventing new ones is an expensive, difficult enterprise. Choice is usually a matter of accepting, rejecting, or modifying a single solution. Because time constraints force decisions before problems are well structured, errors are frequently made, problem components are at best only partially addressed, and the chosen solution may not solve the problem at all and even if it does is likely to generate unanticipated side-effects that worsen other problem components. In its definitive treatment of a critical but hitherto entirely unresearched dimension of the administration of the U.S. Navy, the book provides full details over time concerning the elaboration of officer grades and titles, creation of promotion by selection, sea duty requirements, graded retirement, staff-line conflicts, the establishment of the Reserve, and such unusual subjects as tombstone promotions. In the process, it transcends the specifics of the personnel system to give a broad picture of the Navys history over the first century and a half of its development.