[GZG] The internal workings of Fleets

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Am enjoying painting my little space ships at the moment and am very
grateful to all the people who have posted various articles on all sorts
of subjects on the various sites of the Full Thrust Web-ring over the
years.	There's some very good stuff there.

I was particulary interested in 'Indy's' Unofficial Fleet Lists.  Is
this project still going, or has Indy moved on to other things?  The
last updates seem to be 2002ish.

While I've read a lot on Napoleonic Naval, I know next to nothing about
modern Naval tactics or operations.  To have someone suggest Fleet OOBs
is a great starting point towards planning one's fleet (every fleet
can't have 10 SDNs after all, no matter how much we'd like to - the MUCr
75,000 would begger the state for starters).

Indy's lists seem to follow modern naval useage (or as much of it as I
understand) in that there are Destroyer and Cruiser Flotillas that do
the bulk of the patrolling and showing the flag, and 'Heavy
Units'/Strike Units which, like modern US Carrier Groups (for instance),
are deployed from base areas to where the serious fighting is.

What I would like to know is how the command structure works when a
Destroyer flotilla (for example) is attached to a Strike unit to augment
it's patrol strength.  Would the commanding officer of a Destroyer
flotilla (a senior captain or commodore, I guess) suddenly find his unit
broken up and deployed as the admiral of the Strike Unit sees fit?  Or
would the admiral's orders come to the Commodore to be relayed to the
units of the Destroyer Flotilla?

The latter seems more cumbersome and more likely to induce errors or
delays.  In the former case, is it just part of the way 'things are
done' that a chap (or chapess) should expect his lovely little command
to be deployed as the Admiral sees fit, perhaps split between divisions
of a fleet (do modern fleets still divide their ships into divisions
under subordinate admirals or senior captains or is everything run by
the admiral?) and perhaps lost to him if the admiral deploys one of the
fleet divisions away in a multi-system fight?

Regards

David