The Falkland Islands lie not far from one of the worlds great ocean turning points-focal areas of trade in strategic jorgan but one which did not see a great dead of traffic until the nineteenth century.
In the Royal Navy, the existence of formal doctrine can traced back to the original edition of Fighting Instructions, issued to the fleet in 1972, and to a code of tactical signals promulgated during the Commoneath in 1963.
The Sea War in Korea is the first complete analysis from a naval point of view of the operational problems and lessons of the war.