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

At 1:12 PM +0200 7/22/08, Oerjan Ariander wrote:
>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.

Which when you think about it, is turning what 
amounts to High Tech Space combat into a battle 
of Thermopylae.
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