The United States During The Civil War Northern Naval Strategic Thinking And Naval Construction,

In 1776,The United States established where it lies in the connection of Altanic and the Pacific Ocean. Most of early inhabitant were from the European and the descendant sailed across the seas. As soon as start, the American survival and development is closely linked with the sea, therefore the status and the function of the navy count for much. But in the domestic, the research of strategy and construction of navy certainly was not from as soon as starts fully realized, But experienced a extremely long time and winding exploration process. Finally,the US formered the strategic concept----"Navy First"in the eve of the civil war.From 1861 to 1865,the civil war broke out . With the war advanced, the navy played a very important role. In the strategic concept aspect, The north transited from the limited war to the total war . The north navy formulated the naval blockade strategy and sea army combating teamwork strategy to"suffocate"south. Thus thoroughly, the economy of the south collapsed, finally it couldn't be able to continue to persist the war. Therefore,the north took the navy as the nucleus in strategic implementation. The United States navy obtained the considerable development.In this period, regardless of technical equipment,organizational structure,direction management as well as rear service and so on, the navy of north obtained enormous development.This article also elaborates the south naval strategy ,and briefly makes the comparison about naval strategy between the north and the south.In the influence of navy great development of the world, The United States navy has carried on a series of rich creative invention: The steam power and the propeller impel were widely utilized in the construction of battleship and submarine for the first time; Simultaneously the torpedo also widely started to apply;For the north, the construction aspect of navy most prominent factor was armored vessel massively constructs, it had completely substituted for the wooden battleship And had carried on a confrontation between the first armored vessel in the world navy history.In the navy administrative-managerial apparatus aspect,the north at the right moment carried on according to the situation , each bureau's function of the administrative organ has been thin, simultaneously has carried on the reform to the personnel system,each work stably developed Recruits in the naval personnel , the north had realized transformation from the volunteer soldier to soldier performing obligatory service, and solved the deficient problem of the soldier. At the same time,the north recruited in the personnel on also to adopt positively armed black's policy.In logistics support aspect, in order to carry on the total war, the north mobilized the huge manpower ,physical resource ,financial resource,and established the unprecedented huge logistic support system. The rear service command element by the ordnance department and the military provisions department were composed. All these achieved the final success for the north to provide the safe guard.The article finally narrated two important campaigns of the north navy in the civil war, these campaigns all profoundly have manifested the north naval strategy thought. Simultaneously the new weapon which the industrial revolution introduced also obtained widespread application in the these campaigns, therefore the civil war was called the first modern war of the world history.