Battle Line: The United States Navy 1919-1939

About the Author

Thomas C. Hone is a former senior executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and a former member of the faculty of the Naval War College. He is an award-winning author of many books, articles, and essays on naval and military affairs. Trent Hone is an authority on the U.S. Navy of the early twentieth century and a leader in the application of complexity science to organizational design. He writes and speaks about tactical doctrine, organizational learning, and complexity and is the author of Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898-1945.