As the tittle suggests this book aims to provide an examination of and an introduction to the complex business of naval warfare. it does not provide a history of war at sea but rather gives the reader the intellectual tools required to understand fully that history and also to make sense of current olans, capabilites and operations
An amphibious operation involves the projection of a military force from the sea onto a hostile, or a potentially hostile, shore. There are four key types of amphibious operation - assault, raid, withdrawal and demonstration - and these are described in detail later.