Re: [GZG] [OT] Books (Weber/White/Meier)

Ken Hall wrote:

>Wayne Hughes argues in Fleet Tactics (and the updated Fleet Tactics and

>Coastal Combat--I have the original, but not the updated edition) that 
>"attack effectively first" is the sine qua non of modern naval combat. 
>Once the numbers favor a given side, that side will inevitably prevail 
>assuming it presses its advantage.

True, though not for the same reasons as in StarFire. In the StarFire 
strategic environment every longer-distance naval movement has to pass 
through a narrow channel - at best a strait of Gibraltar, at worst a
Suez 
canal - and where most space battles are attempts to batter your way 
through such a channel against enemy opposition. By sending enough ships

through you can, eventually, batter through just about any defence - but

the cost of doing so can be *extremely* high.

Regards,

Oerjan
orjan.ariander1@comhem.se

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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