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	COMMAND OF THE SEA - LoveToKnow Article on COMMAND OF THE SEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Anglo-French command of the sea in 1854 1856, complete as it was, did not enable the Allies to intercept the Russian ships in the north-western Pacific, nor did that held by the Federals in the American Civil War put an early stop to the cruises of the Confederate vessels.
		If he is strong enough to defeat her fleet he obtains the command of the sea in general; and it is for him to decide whether he shall show the effectiveness of that command in the Mediterranean or in the English Channel.
		Command of the sea is the indispensable preliminary condition of a successful military expedition sent across the water.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEA_COMMAND_OF_THE.htm (2698 words)

	A.F. Pollard - A Short History Of The Great War - Chapter IV
		But while our command of the sea was not disputed in deed by the Germans, it was disputed in word by domestic critics and denied by loquacious generals; and the exploits of German submarines, airships, and aeroplanes lent some colour to the denial and to the assertion that England had ceased to be an island.
		Command of the sea is a sufficient protection for an island-empire; to conquer others it needs a superior army, and the absence of such an army proved the defensive aims of the British Empire before the war.
		The command of the sea was, in fact, abandoned by the Germans when on 26 July 1914 their fleet was recalled from the Norwegian fiords; and the cruisers which the outbreak of war found beyond reach of German territorial waters were in turn and in time destroyed.
	www.ibiblio.org /HTMLTexts/Albert_Frederick_Pollard/A_Short_History_Of_The_Great_War/chapter04.html (5075 words)

	STRATEGY IN THE NAVY (1909)
		The doctrine that the command of the sea can be secured or maintained by "an attitude of laissez faire on the part of our capital ships" appears to me to rest on a profound misconception, which it may be worth while to examine the origin and the nature.
		In other words, he will not recognize that the command of the sea is simply the advantage given by a crushing naval victory over an enemy who by that victory has been so weakened as to be obliged to abandon the conflict on the open sea.
		Corbett to imagine a naval commander deliberating, first; between the relative importance of beating the enemy's fleet and transporting his own troops across the sea, and, secondly, between the relative importance of beating the enemy's fleet and cruising on the sea routes.
	www.clausewitz.com /CWZHOME/HISTART/WILK1.html (3788 words)

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		There they formed an army, and having money at command, and open sea communications, they were able to import equipment from abroad, and eventually to transport their land-force, secured from molestation on the voyage by the sea-power at their disposal, to the neighbourhood of Valparaiso, where it was landed and triumphantly ended the campaign.
		The expression 'Command of the sea,' however, in its proper and strategic sense, is so firmly fixed in the language that it would be a hopeless task to try to expel it; and as, no doubt, writers will continue to use it, it must be explained and illustrated.
		The result is that, when peace is interrupted and the fighting man--on both sea and land--is confronted with the problems of practical belligerency, he brings to his attempts at their solution an intellectual equipment drawn, not from knowledge of real war, but from the less trustworthy arsenal of the recollections of his peace training.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/10694/10694-8.txt (19912 words)

	SEA WOLVES VIRTUAL MILITARY COMMAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The duration of the sentence is indefinite at the Battalion Commander’s discretion.
		Any member dismissed by Administrative action may appeal to the office of Battalion Commander for a full investigation and subsequent review if the application is made in writing within fourteen (14) days of the order being received (see articles II 3 and 4).
		If the Battalion Commander receives such a request appealing against an administrative action it shall be the duty of the Battalion Commander to initiate an investigation and to convene a Review board of four Committee members to consider the action.
	seawolves.org /swaf/documents/modp.html (1003 words)

	Assuming Away History: A Critical Analysis of Forward ...From the Sea by
		These officers were still under the influence of Nelson and his heroics on the high seas during the Napoleonic wars, which resulted in their attitudes ranging anywhere from antagonistic to resistant toward a civilian (i.e., me) telling them that destruction of the opponent's fleet could not always decisively end a war.
		John B. Hattendorf, whom I greatly admire as both a scholar and insightful maritime theorist, states that "command of the sea may be secured by removing the possibility of a rival or potential rival naval forces from effectively using the common sea lanes to interfere with one's own use of the sea."
		FFTS uses the terms sea control and maritime supremacy in the same sentence, I assume permanent general command is the type to which it is referring.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1997/Lindsey.htm (10582 words)

	Sea Launch Prepares for Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Sea Launch Company is a joint venture of Boeing, RSC Energia of Moscow, KB Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash of Ukraine, and Kvaerner Maritime of Norway.
		Sea Launch uses a Ukranian- and Russian-built rocket, the Norwegian-built Odyssey launch platform, and a 656-foot-long command ship, the Sea Launch Commander.
		Sea Launch will demonstrate the capabilities of its ocean-based commercial launch system with its first launch in March 1999.
	www.boeing.com /companyoffices/financial/finreports/annual/98annualreport/launch.htm (243 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Men of war
		US Navy captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" argued that success in war and economic prosperity were directly related to command of the sea.
		Massie focuses on the critical contest between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet for command of the sea.
		Britain maintained command of the sea; her blockade still deprived Germany of food and raw materials.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/11/23/men_of_war (937 words)

	Command at Sea Isn't Everything
		I then was a newly selected commander with a shipyard period, a training cycle, a couple of exercises, a change of command, two fitness reports, and a command qualification under my belt.
		My destiny had been stolen from me. I had earned the right to command at sea, and now it appeared that it was not going to happen.
		Commander McKenna is a surface warfare officer stationed in the Netherlands as an amphibious advisor to the Royal Netherlands Navy.
	www-nmcp.med.navy.mil /pao/Courier/commandatsea.asp (845 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Isles: A History at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But the Classis Britannica, the fleet, was no more; and after the respite attained on land, the Britons were unable to wrest command of the sea from the Saxons, and so the enemy came in new waves and stayed.
		Command of the sea passed to a new wave of Germanic invaders, the Vikings.
		Command of the sea was blocked to the threatening French by the Angevin possession of half France, and England was safe.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-27C1-8A17AC4-38A7546A-prod5 (1555 words)

	Clausewitz and Defense of the Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Man has understood the importance of controlling the Sea from his earliest days on the planet, and while many nations have repeated the mantra, others have seemingly forgotten it or have approached the concept without the benefit of an overarching naval strategy.
		Applied to the sea the superiority of the defense is no less valid a theory than had Pythagoras used carpentry to explain his mathematical theorem for right triangles.
		So in order to understand the strategic importance of the sea in concert with your national interests you are not required to posses a deep understanding of sailing or how to tactically fight fleets, or any thread of knowledge connecting the two points.
	www.trackpads.com /portal/printer.php?id=33 (1710 words)

	Sea Control Squadron 24 Command History
		Sea Control Squadron TWO-FOUR (VS-24) traces its history back to 1 January 1943, when it was commissioned as Bombing Squadron SEVENTEEN (VB-17).
		The SCOUTS accomplish this by ensuring the highest state of readiness and providing an all-weather sea strike and sea control platform that is highly capable in all warfare areas.
		Sea Control Squadron TWO-FOUR is an integral element to the successful execution of Strike Warfare, Anti-Surface Warfare, Electronic Warfare, Over-the-Horizon Targeting, Counter-Targeting, and Organic Refueling.
	www.navy.mil /search/displaybbs.asp?bbs_id=850&cat=1 (703 words)

	strategy and tactics -> Naval Strategy and Tactics on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The main strategy of sea power was defined as “command of the sea,” i.e., the ability to deny use of the sea as a means of transportation to an enemy while simultaneously protecting one's own merchant shipping, and the ability to use the sea to project power ashore while denying that capability to the enemy.
		Despite the introduction of new weapons such as steam warships, armored ships, heavy ordnance, submarines, and aircraft, “command of the sea” remained a fundamental objective of naval strategy.
		In both world wars the submarine was employed mainly as a commerce destroyer and, as such, could not by itself gain command of the sea.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/strategy_NavalStrategyandTactics.asp (703 words)

	Harvard University Press/Command at Sea
		Commanders at sea struggle not only with the unpredictability of natural elements, but also with a shroud of uncertainty often referred to as the "fog of war." Over the centuries most admirals yielded to the natural temptation to find in new technologies a means to assert centralized control over their forces.
		But other commanders have recognized the fog for what it is: a constant level of uncertainty resistant to mere technological solution.
		Their decentralized approach to command resulted in a resiliency that so often provided the key to success in battle.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/PALCOM.html (271 words)

	U.S. Department of Defense Transformation Story - U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command's 'Lean' Initiative Improves Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Earlier this month, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for Logistics was invited to witness Naval Sea Systems Command and Program Executive Office leaders add focus and goals to the "Lean" initiative during an executive planning session.
		The Naval Sea Systems Command is aligned with the Navy’s goals and objectives and has been on an aggressive transformation journey over the last two years.
		The command’s “Lean” includes the recognized best practices of “Lean,” “Six Sigma,” and “Theory of Constraints,” and prioritized application of these concepts to the right value streams to achieve maximum business results.
	www.defenselink.mil /transformation/articles/2004-11/ta111904d.html (362 words)

	The Sea and Modern Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The role of naval power in international greatness is thus the paradox of the eighties: the increasing importance of the sea at a time of decreasing ability to command or control its use.
		Another part of that role is the unique by-product of exploding technology and its effect on command of the seas with ships and weapons unique to the nuclear age.
		One of these, Mahan on Sea Power, is a balanced and authoritative study by Professor William E. Livezey.* First published in 1947, the original version offered a post-World War II view of maritime power at the dawn of the nuclear age.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1982/nov-dec/schratz.html (1370 words)

	FrontLine Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Commander (ret) Ralph Fisher was one of the first post-war engineering officers to qualify as a sub-specialist in naval aircraft electrical and electronic systems.
		Commander Kenneth P. Hansen is the Military Co-chair of the Maritime Studies Programme at Canadian Forces College in Toronto.
		A retired army Colonel, former Commandant of RMC and Army Inspector with 37 years of service, Howard Marsh is currently the Senior Defence Analyst of the Conference of Defence Associations.
	www.frontline-canada.com /writers/index.html (3963 words)

	MILNET: U.S. Military Command Structure - October 2002
		The remaining Unified commands are functional commands with specialities that are implicit in their names, such as transportation, combat, space, special ops and the like.
		The new command structure adds (as the tenth Unified Command) for the first time since the end of World War II, a command for the U.S. homeland, Northern Command.
		The Mediterranean Sea borders the northern portion of the AOR.
	www.milnet.com /us-mil-commands.htm (732 words)

	Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
		The names of the early bureaus forming the roots of the Naval Sea Systems Command were the Bureau of Ordnance, the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
		However, in January 1959, a Committee on Organization of the Department of the Navy, better known as the Franke Board, concluded that the Bureau of Aeronautics and the Bureau of Ordnance should be merged, and on 1 December 1959, the bureau of Naval Weapons was established.
		These two Commands were the forerunner organizations to the Naval Sea Systems Command, which was established on 1 July 1974.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/navsea.htm (839 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The CENTAF commander was designated Commander, CENTCOM Forward, and remained in Saudi Arabia with the other general officers to coordinate with the Saudis and monitor the reception of US forces.
		The need for a separate USMC component commander, as well as the structure of the USMC component command headquarters and the MEF command element, are being reexamined in light of these lessons.
		Establishing and implementing Coalition command relationships was difficult and a matter of great concern for all nations contributing forces to the Coalition.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/gulfreports/titvappk.doc (12811 words)

	NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		WASHINGTON, DC - As Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) continues to instill a culture of transition throughout the headquarters and field activities, it is asking its military and civilian employees if they know which line of business (LOB) they are in.
		As the leader of the Navy’s largest systems command, Balisle stresses, as he communicates the command’s business model, that NAVSEA “is not a business; it is a command.” He notes that NAVSEA is benefiting from best business practices, but that our stock price is not the issue.
		The command culture may be evolving to become more efficient and effective at what it does, but its mission to ready the 21st Century Navy remains the same; one question that all NAVSEA employees can answer with pride.
	www.navsea.navy.mil /newswire_content.asp?txtDataID=10624&txtTypeID=2 (491 words)

	Command At Sea!
		A ship at sea is a different world unto herself in consideration of the protracted and distant operations of the fleet units, the Navy must place great power, responsibility and trust in the hands of those leaders chosen for command.
		In each ship there is one man who, in the hour of emergency or peril at sea, can turn to no other man. There is one man alone who is ultimately responsible for the safe navigation, engineering performance, accurate gunfire, and morale of his ship.
		There is not an instant during his tour as Commanding Officer that he can escape the grasp of command responsibility.
	www.usslongbeach-assoc.org /COgallery.html (208 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jervis, John, earl of St. Vincent (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His most famous action as commander of the Mediterranean fleet was his defeat in 1797 of 27 Spanish ships off Cape St. Vincent with only 15 vessels.
		The victory was partly due to an unauthorized attack by Horatio Nelson and might have been more complete had Jervis realized the weakness of the enemy.
		He returned (1806–7) to a sea command until his health failed.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/Jervis-J.html (256 words)

	Leisure Games.Com Limited COMMAND AT SEA
		Command at Sea Volume 1: The Rising Sun
		In order to use No Sailor But a Fool you must own the Standard Rules to Command at Sea and one of the two data annexes that were included in The Rising Sun or Supermarina I boxed games.
		Supermarina II, Volume 4 in Larry Bond's Command at Sea series portrays the apex of the struggle for naval supremacy in the Mediterranean,; the vital supply link for both the Axis and Allied sides in North Africa.
	www.leisuregames.com /acatalog/Main_Catalogue_COMMAND_AT_SEA_754.html (270 words)

	U.S. Fleet Forces Command Honors 2005 Sea and Shore Sailors of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- U.S. Fleet Forces Command named its 2005 Sea and Shore Sailors of the year in a ceremony held at the Sheraton Waterside Hotel in Nofolk, Va., April 21.
		Rainer is currently serving with Strike Group Oceanography Team East as part of the Aerographer's Mate Sea Warrior initiative, and Bumpass is assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87 at Naval Air Station, Oceana, Va.
		Commenting on the intensity of the competition, Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Adm. John B. Nathman said, “These Sailors stand out in their service, dedication and performance.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=18031 (323 words)

	The American Thinker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In April I traveled to Beijing to deliver a paper on "'Command of the Sea' and the Proliferation Security Initiative" at an annual symposium on maritime security held by the Ford Foundation and the China Institute for Contemporary International Relations.
		A corollary is Beijing's long-term goal of excluding the United States from the region and consolidating its status as the foremost power in Asia, consonant with the ancient "Middle Kingdom" concept.
		Its passivity may be ceding the South China Sea to Beijing as a sphere of interest -- certainly an unpalatable result from the American standpoint.
	www.americanthinker.com /articles_print.php?article_id=3590 (1219 words)

	BUPERSINST 1430.17F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		designated as sea duty (Type 2 or 4) and their Reserve Unit Identification Code and Active Unit Identification Code are the same with the exception of NMCB units.
		Year Recall (OYR) personnel are eligible for this program once temporarily assigned (minimum of 30 consecutive days) to a command designated as sea duty (Type 2 or 4).
		Therefore, authorization should be obtained from the parent command of a deployed detachment prior to effecting a CAP advancement.
	buperscd.technology.navy.mil /bup_updt/508/Instructions/143017.htm (806 words)

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