Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat
Et tu, Marco? Florida senator Marco Rubio gave me heart palpitations this morning with the headline of his article over at The American Conservative:...
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Et tu, Marco? Florida senator Marco Rubio gave me heart palpitations this morning with the headline of his article over at The American Conservative:...
Remarks delivered at “Limes” Maritime Festival, Trieste, September 18, 2021. The organizers have asked me to appraise the U.S. strategic perspective on the Mediterranean...
Huzzah! The news broke this week that Australia, Great Britain, and the United States have forged a new alliance dubbed AUKUS, for Australia-U.K.-U.S. Among...
In a previous life, I was the foreign-affairs columnist for the local paper in my adopted hometown of Athens, Georgia. The month after 9/11...
You have to be there to combat terrorism—or any other martial challenge for that matter. This is Strategy 101: the likely victor is the...
This week over at the Global Times, Deng Xiaoci has the story of how China intends to regulate shipping in China’s “territorial waters” starting...
It’s a truism in the halls of professional military education schoolhouses that the enemy gets a vote in the success or failure of our...
With apologies to Nassim Nicholas Taleb: never underestimate the impact—and value—of the highly mundane. Seafaring folk, including yours truly, have a habit of falling in...
A few years back, China’s defense minister, General Chang Wanquan, implored the nation to ready itself for a “people’s war at sea.” The purpose of such...
Among the more-than-ample reasons for acquiring a flotilla of diesel-electric submarines for the U.S. Navy: SSKs could help deter war by demonstrating American resiliency...