“Many notorious military blunders have been set up by poor personal relationships (if not wilful taciturnity) between key participants, the need for… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Teamwork Copy Share Image
“At a time of deep naval peace, when social connections were a means to the top, when royal yachts brought career advantage,… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Peace Copy Share Image
“The promise of signalling fosters a neglect of doctrine.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“(28) “Doctrine draws on the lessons of history” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon History Copy Share Image
“(25) Every proven military incompetent has previously displayed attributes which his superiors rewarded. Almost every” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“Without a dedicated naval staff to define requirements and shape policy in technical matters, and, where appropriate, tap civilian expertise, the Navy… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Nuclear physics Copy Share Image
“In all aspects of shipboard life, “guides, tables, reports, logs, books, inspection provisions and other methods of supervision were developed, mostly in… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Books Copy Share Image
“(16) Incoming traffic can act as a brake on decision-making,” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Decision making Copy Share Image
“The sudden disproof of the reassuring, structured assumptions about the formula for naval mastery, which had accumulated during the untesting age of… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“Thus was obscured the fact that his most essential contribution to British naval mastery was as a trainer of Collingwoods, Blackwoods and… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Greatest gift Copy Share Image
“A service which neglects to foster a conceptual grasp of specialised subjects, will have too few warriors able to interrogate the specialists.… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Change Copy Share Image
“(7) In long periods of peace, ‘ambient’ doctrine may be no more than the habits of the years in which war has… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Habits Copy Share Image
“would have been venturing into what Tryon had tried to reintroduce as their ‘secondary-syllabus’ duties, whereas all too many of them owed… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“that the shaky premiss on which British fleets had, for two generations, been practised and led – the assumption that tactical signals… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“Signals ‘capacity’ tends to be defined by how much the senior end can transmit, rather than by how much the junior end… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“(18) The ‘centre’ must subject its own transmissions to the strictest self-denying ordinance, and, in this, seniority is critical. Admirals no doubt… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“(27) The key to efficiency lies in the correct balance between organisation and method.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Productivity Copy Share Image
