The value of theory in maritime operations
theory is often based on the processing of past experience, history, far from being simply ‘a record of exploded ideas’ should help us avoid repeating previous errors
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The value of theory in maritime operations
The modern naval view is that the absence of theory is far more likely to stultify action than its presence. Navies are still important but they operate in a vastly different strategic environment and face entirely different problems (as well, of course, as many more familiar ones); all these issues need to be seriously thought about and theorised over because they
have implications for what navies do and how they do it
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The value of theory in maritime operations
Corbett reproduced a seventeenth-century report that pointed out the essential difference between operations at sea and on land: it intended to enjoin our fleet to advance and fight at sea much after the manner of an army at land, assigning every ship to a particular division, rank, file and station, which order and regularity was not only improbable but almost impossible to be observed by so great a fleet in so uncertain a place as the sea.
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