Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive
A thought experiment: suppose the U.S. Marine Corps were looking for a winsome amphibious transport—let’s call it a “light amphibious warship” (LAW)—to help marines...
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A thought experiment: suppose the U.S. Marine Corps were looking for a winsome amphibious transport—let’s call it a “light amphibious warship” (LAW)—to help marines...
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...
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...