Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive
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...
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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...
The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard—the U.S. sea services—are currently prosecuting “Large Scale Exercise 2021.” The maneuver’s banal codename belies its ambition....
The perils of imprecise language obsessed George Orwell. Vague, abstract, or euphemistic language made it possible to entertain foolish thoughts. Foolish thoughts gave rise...
During Desert Shield and Desert Storm my skipper took delight in regaling ship riders with the wonders of battleships, ours in particular. This old...
Two cheers for Great Britain! Why only two? London merits two cheers because it has accepted that “Global Britain” must play its part in...
How do you change a culture? That question courses through a new congressionally mandated report from retired marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and retired...
Some opine that Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping bears a striking resemblance to Winnie the Pooh. Nah. He’s Scut Farkus, the bully from the...
Major doings in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean these past couple of weeks. At present naval forces representing thirty-two countries are carrying out...
Live a T-shaped life. To oversimplify a trifle, that means trying to know something about everything and everything about one thing. It means combining...
This week Chief of Naval Operations Mike Gilday and Marine Corps Commandant David Berger went before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee to talk budgets and...