The 1980s have ushered in a new era for the US. Navy. Despite projectionssa that the number of ships it had at the start of the decade would decline, the total is increasing, and the Navy is predicting that it will reach its long-sought goal of a 600-ship Navy by 1990.
This report examines the achievement of the principle of unity of effort from a narrowfocus of the command and control of U.S. jointtactical air operations in four campaigns during the period from 1942 to 1968.