Ep 96: Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone on Naval Combat at Night

School of War · Oct 31, 2023 · 56m

Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone, naval historians and co-editors of Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904-1944, join the show to talk about how naval warfare was transformed by technology that made possible night combat at sea.

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Times

• 02:01 Introduction

• 03:35 Night combat pre-19th century

• 06:02 Why do we fight at night?

• 09:30 Getting close in

• 13:47 Different approaches

• 19:28 German naval thinking pre-WWI

• 22:05 Jutland and after

• 27:09 Theory vs. experience

• 32:04 Japanese success at night

• 37:59 The Italian navy

• 40:52 Long range torpedoes

• 45:27 Changes in…