This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both the theory and practice of operational warfare at sea and this 2nd edition has been thoroughly revised, with two completely new chapters.

Milan Vego is R.K. Turner Professor of Operational Art, U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, and is the author of ten books, including Joint Operational Warfare: Theory and Practice (2009) and Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial (Routledge, 2016).

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Objectives

3. Methods

4. Elements

5. Operational Command and Control

6. Operational Decision-Making

7. Operational Design

8. Operational Idea

9. Operational Support

10. Operational Planning

11. Preparations and Execution

12. Operational Leadership

13. Operational Thinking