These examples make the method choices concrete. One dissertation depended entirely on archival research. Another combined a literature study, interviews, and detailed case studies of amphibious operations within a war. The case studies narrowed a large conflict into specific events that could be examined in depth without losing the broader historical setting. This historical and social-science approach also offers science or engineering students an alternative when laboratory access is limited.
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A naval historian's dissertation method in practice
One naval-history dissertation relied wholly on archives, while another combined interviews with tightly focused case studies of amphibious operations in a particular war.