Technology Quote by Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“(10) Innovations adopted in accordance with peacetime doctrine, may lock the Fleet into both systems and doctrine which will fail the empirical test of war – for “the harsh lessons of combat will always be a world away” quote by Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon — Download Open image

““(10) Innovations adopted in accordance with peacetime doctrine, may lock the Fleet into both systems and doctrine which will fail the empirical test of war – for “the harsh lessons of combat will always be a world away””

Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

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“The literal meaning of ‘doctrine’ is “what is taught within a group as its corporate beliefs, principles or faith”52 – although “what is learnt…

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“(20) There is an inverse law between robust doctrine and the need for signalling.”

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“that (11) Purveyors of technical systems will seek to define performance criteria and trials conditions.”

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“By the close of the Victorian age Britain’s officer classes were increasingly the inheritors, rather than the winners, of empire.”

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“can therefore attribute the many reporting failures at Jutland to a cocktail of factors, including: (a) lack of initiative, and ‘seniority knows best’; (b) fear of being direction-found; and (c) insidious organizational flaws. Perhaps all senior officers, not just Goodenough, should have gone to their cabins at nightfall on the 31st of May, had a glass of port, and thought…

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“Some of them are blinding glimpses of the obvious (BGOs), several overlap, and I make no claims of discovery. The fundamental proposition – and the one from which most others flow – is certainly a BGO: (1) In times of peace, empirical experience fades and rationalist theory takes its place. This trend, we may aver, is most marked in periods…

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“My comments are directed at the system which was responsible for their poor performance, not at the officers concerned. I do not recall ever…

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“(19) Signalling promotes the centralisation of authority.”

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“Signals’ prioritising mechanisms become dislocated in times of overload.”

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