![]() ![]() Over the last 70 years or so the world’s navies have tended to forget the original ideas behind warship design. It is no longer acceptable to operate ‘commercial equivalent’ warships or warships built to reduced standards. Modern warships, especially surface combatants, need to be able to fight and survive at sea. In our present climate of increasing peer power competition, the importance of naval warship survivability is once again at the forefront of our minds. At the time it was a nice to have technical history but in recent years it has perhaps grown in importance and now this 2017 reprint clearly deserves to be read, or re-read, by all modern naval thinkers. NORMAN FRIEDMAN’S ‘British Destroyers’ was first published in 2009. ![]() Seaforth Publications, Barnsley, 2009, reprint 2017. British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. ![]()
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