Naval fleets recreated soldier-worker specialization through capital and escort ships

Evidence

During the First and Second World Wars, navies faced the same constraint, and they adopted an analogous solution. Battleships got bigger and bigger, packing more and larger guns, but increased firepower came at the expense of speed and maneuverability, so battleships relied on smaller, faster ships such as cruisers and destroyers to screen them and provide reconnaissance. — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 135

Categorization

• XREF: Continues the human-division-of-labor theme from paragraph 133, now applied to naval combat. — connects to: Human armies and social insects solved the same weapon trade-off by role specialization — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 133

Related

• Human armies and social insects solved the same weapon trade-off by role specialization (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Human armies and social insects solved the same weapon trade-off by role specialization #exemplifies (0.75) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 133