‘Give Them Hell’: The US Navy’s Night Combat Doctrine and the Campaign for Guadalcanal

Autor:	Trent Hone
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Engineering Navy Aeronautics Operations research business.industry Preparedness media_common.quotation_subject World War II Doctrine business media_common
Zdroj:	War in History. 13:171-199
ISSN:	1477-0385 0968-3445
DOI:	10.1191/0968344506wh335oa
Popis:	Examinations of the US Navy’s tactical performance during the nocturnal engagements of the Guadalcanal campaign have largely ignored pre-war tactical developments, focusing instead on the details of the actions and extrapolating from their results to draw conclusions about the navy’s preparedness for war. This article adopts a different methodology, concentrating first on the pre-war preparations and then examining the night battles in light of the tactical doctrine the navy developed before the Second World War. The result is a comprehensive view of the navy’s night tactical doctrine, which provides the reasons for its successes and failures off Guadalcanal.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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