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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Ocean as the Operating Environment of the Navy
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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To Master the Boundless Sea
Author: Jason W. SmithPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.
Environmental Information for Naval Warfare
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309168430
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Accurate and timely environmental information can provide a tactical advantage to U.S. naval forces during warfare. This report analyzes the current environmental information system used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and recommends ways to address uncertainty and leverage network-centric operating principles to enhance the value of environmental information.
An Ocean in Common
Author: Gary E. WeirPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1585441147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.S. Navy and American ocean scientists drew ever closer, converting an early marriage of necessity into a relationship of astonishing achievement. Beginning in 1919, Gary Weir's An Ocean in Common traces the first forty-two years of their joint quest to understand each other and the deep ocean. Early in the twentieth century, American naval officers questioned the tactical and strategic significance of applied ocean science, demonstrating the gap between this kind of knowledge and that deemed critical to naval warfare. At the same time, scientists studying the ocean labored in their inadequately funded, discreet disciplines, seemingly content to keep naval warfare at arm's length. German U-boat success in World War I changed these views fundamentally, bringing ocean science insights to an increasing number of naval objectives. Driven primarily by anti-submarine priorities, the physics, chemistry, and geology of the ocean, more than its biology, became the early focus of American ocean studies. The World War II experience solidified the Navy's relationship with ocean scientists, and the years after 1945 found the American military investing heavily in both applied and basic research. Today, oceanography is a permanent resident on the bridge of American fighting ships and the Navy continues to provide much of the impetus and funding for fundamental research, in both naval and civilian laboratories. In An Ocean in Common Gary Weir focuses on the compelling motives and carefully engineered course that brought scientists and naval officers together, across a considerable cultural divide, to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of one another and the world ocean. Weir details how this alliance laid the powerful multidisciplinary foundation for long-range ocean communication and surveillance, modern submarine warfare, deep submergence, and the emergence of oceanography and ocean engineering as independent and vital fields of study.
The Ocean Science Program of the U.S. Navy, Accomplishments and Prospects, June 1967
Author: United States. Office of the Oceanographer of the NavyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The Ocean Science Program of the U.S. Navy
Author: United States. Office of the Oceanographer of the NavyPublisher:
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Category : Military oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Ocean Science Program of the U.S. Navy
Author: United States. Navy Department. Office of the Oceanographer of the NavyPublisher:
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Category : Military oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
;Contents: History of Navy ocean science; Organizational structure; The Navy ocean science program; Facilities of the ocean science program; The Navy ocean science program and the marine community; Prospects for the future.
Oceanography and Mine Warfare
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309172225
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Environmental information is important for successful planning and execution of naval operations. A thorough understanding of environmental variability greatly increases the likelihood of mission success. To ensure that naval forces have the most up-to-date capabilities, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has an extensive environmental research program. This research, to be of greatest use to the warfighter, needs to be directed towards assisting and solving battlefield problems. To increase research community understanding of the operational demands placed on naval operators and to facilitate discussion between these two groups, the National Research Council's (NRC) Ocean Studies Board (OSB), working with ONR and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy, convened five previous symposia on tactical oceanography. Oceanography and Mine Warfare examines the following issues: (1) how environmental data are used in current mine warfare doctrine, (2) current procedures for in situ collection of data, (3) the present capabilities of the Navy's oceanographic community to provide supporting information for mine warfare operations, and (4) the ability of oceanographic research and technology developments to enhance current mine warfare capabilities. This report primarily concentrates on the importance of oceanographic data for mine countermeasures.
The Ocean Engineering Program of the U.S. Navy
Author: United States. Office of the Oceanographer of the NavyPublisher:
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Category : Naval research
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
prepared by Panel 0-37 (HVAC Design) of the Ship Technical Operations Committee.
U.S. Navy stewards of the sea
Author: United States. Department of the NavyPublisher:
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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