Author: William Chamberlaine

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781528168960

Excerpt from Coast Artillery War Game In many defenses the personnel have but little opportunity to see naval vessels and when they do so the men-of-war are seldom available for vessel tracking. Con sequently recourse must be had to such desultory commercial craft as may happen to be in the battle area during drill. Since such craft are at best few and are never in naval formation it may safely be said that no opportunity presents itself for practicing fire control under approximately service conditions. The Coast Artillery War Game offers a substitute for this difficulty, and permits of a fairly good fire-command drill or tactical exercise. It gives each commander an opportunity to immediately supervise the execution of his orders by his juniors, an opportunity which is not possible at artillery drill, since the individual officers and men are widely separated; and it also permits of tactical exercises, involving the use of the various elements of the defense. It does not afford a means of arriving at a definite decision as to the result of an engagement between ships and forts, and any such conclusions drawn from its Operations may be entirely erroneous. The methods of scoring gunfire, which have been adopted after many trials, are at the best only approximate and are probably susceptible of improvement. The game in its present state is largely due to the assistance and encouragement given by the present Chief of Coast Artillery, and to the assistance of many officers who have been identified with its development during the past four years. Among others should be mentioned Capt. Harry C. Barnes, Capt. A. H. Sunderland, Capt. James Totten, Capt. A. L. Rhodes, First Lieut. Robert Arthur, and First Lieut. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.