Thanks for the kind words but....
No questions?
I find it hard to believe I stated things so thoroughly and clearly.
Any way here is one of my favorite papers on USN tactics in particular the basic concept of the "circular cruising formation" that remains little changed to this day.
Along with armor penetration and battleship gunnery accuracy discussions among other issues.
article_hone1_doctrine.doc
What really irritates me as Ive found so many uselful articles, papers, websites on the net and Ive found it impossible to keep track of them all due failure to copy links, lable them properly, broken links, info no longer free to access and failed hard drives etcetcetc.
So if it seems I link certain site fairly often its for those reasons so that maybe Ill be able to find them again my scouring discussion sites Ive posted to.
And then trying to remember in which document specific useful information is located most times maddens me. I disctincly remember reading a fact but where is lost sometimes forever.
If only my researches had/have not been so random and more systematic and organised I wouldnt drive myself insane.
Also the sheer volume of information replete with contradictions and errors can drive a person insane.
People bandy about #s so freely w/o explaining exactly what makes up those #s.
In fact I did it to a certain extent here.
OTOH Im available to provide exact details whereas the authors of most documents I find are not or at leats not readilly avaialble.
Such as the discrepancies/questions I have with the NHC ship level charts.
They are useful but dont always match what I read in the ship histories. And of course sometimes there are errors in those and worse sometimes erroneous info is repeated so many times it becomes accepted as truth.
Sorry for the off topic rant. Just frustration with where I would really like to go with USN history but just cant seem to get there.
I have the same problems with Royal Navy history.
Most other nations are rather more straight forward even the USSR/Russia for the most part.