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- shadowpuppetmaster - Aug 09 2008 | the, of, british
Kristina - this was helpful in making sense of the notion of "fleet in being" that comes up in the Nomadology plateau we're reading for this week.
"The 'fleet in being' concept is based on the assumption that the fleet is relatively safe in port, even if near the enemy. After the battle of Taranto and the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, it became obvious that air power made a fleet concentrated in a port vulnerable, and a fleet in being was no longer a safe option.
The idea of a 'fleet in being' can be generalised to forces other than naval. A fortress under siege is essentially an 'army in being,' which ties up enemy forces without leaving the fortress or doing much fighting. During the Gulf War Saddam Hussein used his air force with an operational doctrine analogous to 'fleet in being.' [1] The mere presence of the Iraqi Air Force in hardened bunkers forced the coalition attacking Iraq to act cautiously and to escort its bomber sorties until the aircraft shelters were found to be vulnerable."
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thanks. i had no idea what that concept meant.
Thanks. I always wondered about that. It actually has a lot of larger correlates in their work as well I think. I am reading AO right now and one of the primary economic distinctions they make is between payment-money and credit-money (or alliance and filiative capital). Where payment money is the finite debt of wages and credit or finance money is the "force that extends a controlling influence without ever leaving port" ie. Bank-drafts and finance. Based on the banks 'holding their monetary forces in the vault' as long as not more than a certain % withdraw their money they are at any given time circulating many times what is actually in the bank as finance-capital, loans and bank notes. EX:95% of the US economy's money is credit-money ie (it does not exist, or exists only as 'promised port-bunker-money'). only %5 of that is really reserve money that can be concertized at any moment.
hmm, that is actually pretty interesting. thanks for the reference.