How Learning from the Death of Battleships Can Save Aircraft Carriers
Battleship history suggests that today's leaders face an array of technical, tactical and operational challenges.
James Holmes is Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College and coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific, just out in Mandarin from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was the last gunnery officer to fire battleship guns in anger, in 1991. The views voiced here are his alone.
This article first appeared in 2014.
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