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““steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.””

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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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“(21) Heavy signalling, like copious orders, is symptomatic of doctrinal deficiency,”

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