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The continuing security of our country and the achievement of worldwide peace have seldom been more dependent upon the wisdom and judgment which professional military leaders can contribute to the highest councils of our nation.

Im Frühjahrstrimester 2015 fand an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg eine Lehrveranstaltung mit dem Titel "Rechnergestützte Konfliktanalyse" statt. Die Kursteilnehmer haben sich während des Trimesters eingehend mit der Simulationsumgebung "Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations" C:MA/NObeshäftigt. Im eigentlichen Kern der Sache konnte C:MA/NO, wie der Programmtitel es schon andeutet, insbesondere bei Luft- und Seemanövern überzeugen. Viele physikalische und technische Phänomene sind in der Simulation erfasst und werden korrekt wiedergegeben, wenngleich mit vereinfachten Modellen. Die künstliche Intelligenz zur Steuerung der eigenen oder gegnerischer Einheiten trifft überwiegend nachvollziehbare Entscheidungen.

"This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many countries made important contributions both in supporting the U.S. and carrying out independent and combined naval operations. This subject holds special importance since current Western strategic thinking and capabilities emphasize the necessity of combined naval operations involving multiple navies in any potential future naval conflict. The example set by the Korean War therefore offers valuable insights into the operational and strategic problems, and benefits and opportunities of contemporary and future combined coalition naval operations"--

In 1895 the Secretary of the Geographical Section of the Committee for Historical Works, Dr. Ernest-Theodore Hamy, published a detailed description of a highly unusual naval chart, undated but probably drawn around A.D. 1630. This valuable document, the property of a British collector, showed "without question, Spitsbergen, the name places being partly in French while, in the middle of the chart, is a coat of arms showing the fleur-de-lys in the style of Louis XIII. The map is entitled La France Artique (sic)!" . To try to establish the exact date or provenance of this chart is beyond the scope of this paper. . The essential importance of this chart is its spectacular proof of a continuous French presence in the waters and along the coasts of Spitsbergen, throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century.

This work is the second and last sequel to Major Naval Operations, published by the Naval War College Press in 2008 as Newport Paper 32. The first sequel, Major Fleet-versus-Fleet Operations in the Pacific War, 1941–1945, was published (as Historical Monograph 22) by the Naval War College Press / Government Printing Office in 2014; a second edition came out in 2016. The focus of that volume was on the description and analysis of three major fleet-versus-fleet operations. In contrast, this work, Major Naval Operations in European Waters, 1939–1945 (twenty-seventh in the Naval War College Press's Historical Monograph series), looks at three different types of major naval/joint operations: an attack on enemy maritime trade, the defense and protection of friendly maritime trade, and a major amphibious/anti-amphibious operation. The principal purpose is to impress on commanders and their staffs the critical importance of studying the theory and practice of major naval/joint operations. Another purpose is to present a method for analyzing a historical case study from an operational instead of a tactical perspective, and then drawing appropriate conclusions and identifying operational lessons. ; https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/usnwc-historical-monographs/1026/thumbnail.jpg