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Fleet Problems and the US Navy's recurring destroyer shortage

An exercise-by-exercise history traces tactical development and the US Navy's repeated demand for destroyers.

Notes

Albert Nofi's Training the Fleet for War follows the US Navy's interwar Fleet Problems through their objectives, exercise arrangements and results. Its maps allow readers to work through the operations as they follow the development of tactics. A repeated call for more destroyers runs through these exercises. The scale of American destroyer construction during the Second World War gives that recurring demand a later context.