The Face of Naval Battle: The human experience of modern war at sea

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It is tempting to think that modern naval warfare is less dependent on people, that wars at sea will increasingly be fought over the horizon by new technologies and smart unmanned missiles. But the ultimate decisions are still made by individuals who are still seriously at risk. Humans and human factors are still decisive and remain so in modern naval warfare. This book analyses the human face of naval warfare in the past, present and future. It is a major inter-disciplinary study containing essays by eminent Australian and international experts.

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David Stevens retired from the Royal Australian Navy in 1994 after having served on many Australian ships and the Australian contingent to the Gulf War in 1990-91. He is now the Director of Naval Historical Studies in the Maritime Studies Programme, the author of U-Boat Far From Home and the editor of Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century, The Royal Australian Navy in World War II, In Search of A Maritime Strategy, and Southern Trident.

John Reeve is a graduate of Melbourne and Cambridge universities and is now a senior lecturer at the Australian Defence Force Academy.