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navy

vr.tr.navy · SOC.ORG

Let an agent explain navies and their organisation and classification, describe naval history and maritime law with attribution, identify specific navies with sources, and decline operational detail.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain navies and their organisation and classification, describe naval history and maritime law with attribution, identify specific navies with sources, and decline operational detail.

The branch of a state armed forces responsible for operations at sea, comprising warships, submarines, naval aviation, marines and shore establishments, classified by reach as blue-water, green-water and brown-water navies, and including auxiliary navies and the small naval forces of some landlocked countries on lakes and rivers; navies are described here from official organisational descriptions, naval history and maritime law, without operational detail.

What it is for: Maritime military branches.

It can be explain organisation and classification; describe history and law; identify specific navies; decline operational detail.

Distinguishing features

Maritime operations

Ships and submarines

Reach classification

Maritime law context

What it looks like

Not physical as a branch; ships, bases and personnel.

How it is recognised

Maritime armed force

Blue-water, green-water, brown-water

A coast guard is usually a civilian or law enforcement service; a merchant marine is commercial

Related models

is a kind of - category

military branch

is a kind of - category

naval unit

is related to - a parallel branch

army

is related to - formations within forces

corps

In practice

Families and kinds

blue-water navies

green-water and brown-water navies

auxiliary and reserve navies

navies of landlocked countries

historical navies

Standards and regulation

National defence law and naval regulations

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Arms control and naval treaties

Failure modes and hazards

Providing operational detail

Partisan presentation of naval disputes

Confusing navies with coast guards

Also called

Hee Lanmiblue-water navyauxiliary navynavies of landlocked countriesgreen-water navybrown-water navyWestern FleetFrigate navynuclear navySea Fleet CommandRoyal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What navies are.

Definitions.

Organisation

Organisation and classification.

Organisation

Organisation.

  1. How are navies organised into fleets, ships, aviation and marines, and what do blue-water, green-water and brown-water mean, according to official and scholarly sources? provenance
  2. Is the request seeking operational detail, which must be declined? boundary

Specific

A specific navy.

Specific

Specific navy.

  1. What is documented about this navy, its history and its public organisation, including navies of landlocked countries? provenance
  2. Which entry fits it? action
History Naval history.

Attribution.

Development

Development of navies.

Development

Development.

  1. How did navies develop from oared galleys through sail and steam to modern fleets, according to historians? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Events

Navies in history.

Events

Events.

  1. How have historians described the role of navies in trade, empire and conflict, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Law Maritime law and roles.

Law.

Law

Law of the sea.

Law

Law of the sea.

  1. How does the law of the sea govern naval activity, and how do navies differ from coast guards? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the law of the sea? action

Peacetime

Peacetime roles.

Peacetime

Peacetime.

  1. What peacetime roles do navies perform, such as search and rescue, disaster relief and anti-piracy, according to official sources? provenance
  2. Which entry fits maritime security? action
Learn Heritage and teaching.

Education.

Heritage

Museum ships and heritage.

Heritage

Heritage.

  1. Which museum ships and naval museums preserve naval heritage? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific museum ship? action

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can naval history be taught neutrally? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each national navy be a separate entry?
  • How should naval history archives be linked?
  • How should maritime law be linked?