Published accounts often isolate the Far East or Southeast Asia instead of connecting the Indian Ocean campaign as a whole. Useful operational studies and personal accounts cover parts of the subject, yet no single treatment made the ocean itself the organizing theater. Research on Formidable and Indomitable offers another route into the campaign. The later convoy, carrier, base, and command problems all belong to one connected theater with its own operational logic.
Chapter · 4:34-6:40
Why the Indian Ocean deserves to be treated as its own theater
The opening case treats the Indian Ocean campaign as a major theater with its own strategic and operational logic.