Engagement in or activities involved in a war fought at sea.
major technological revolutions in naval warfare
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In the end, as with all the campaigns in the Pacific, naval warfare was crucial.
The region was the setting of some of the most intense naval warfare in history.
They introduced a new form of seafaring weaponry that changed the concept of naval warfare forever.
Success in naval warfare depended upon the correct application of certain principles of strategy.
Holland was convinced that naval warfare of the future would be run by the country that used submarines to steal close to the iron-clad battleships and attack at close range.
It is too much to say they learned to be sailors, but they learned how to conduct naval warfare in an eminently Roman fashion.
The book is not a comprehensive history of naval warfare in the 20th century.
Naval warfare was growing in scope and complexity.
Thus ancient naval warfare is full of incidents in which either single ships or even whole squadrons break in or out in the face of overwhelming enemy superiority.
The Geneva Conventions I–IV marked a further step in the codification of the law of naval warfare.