Engagement in or activities involved in a war fought at sea.
major technological revolutions in naval warfare
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- In the end, as with all the campaigns in the Pacific, naval warfare was crucial.
- The region was the setting of some of the most intense naval warfare in history.
- They introduced a new form of seafaring weaponry that changed the concept of naval warfare forever.
- Success in naval warfare depended upon the correct application of certain principles of strategy.
- Holland was convinced that naval warfare of the future would be run by the country that used submarines to steal close to the iron-clad battleships and attack at close range.
- It is too much to say they learned to be sailors, but they learned how to conduct naval warfare in an eminently Roman fashion.
- The book is not a comprehensive history of naval warfare in the 20th century.
- Naval warfare was growing in scope and complexity.
- Thus ancient naval warfare is full of incidents in which either single ships or even whole squadrons break in or out in the face of overwhelming enemy superiority.
- The Geneva Conventions I–IV marked a further step in the codification of the law of naval warfare.