Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive
A common refrain in these pixels is that strategic competition is an armed debate in which debaters—great powers, usually—flourish implements of war in an...
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A common refrain in these pixels is that strategic competition is an armed debate in which debaters—great powers, usually—flourish implements of war in an...
19FortyFive explores the causes and effects, dangers and opportunities of rampant change to the international system. So does this blog. It is 19FortyFive with...
Riddle me this: does a contender intent on overthrowing the international system harbor “limited” or “unlimited” political goals? This may sound like an idle...
A couple of weeks back the U.S. Army released the latest in the family of strategy documents to issue forth from the armed services,...
The competitor who blunders the least wins. That’s what the ancients seemed to believe, at any rate. Athenian and Spartan grandees sized up their...
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command supremo Admiral Philip Davidson wittingly or unwittingly fortified deterrence in the Western Pacific this week. Admiral Davidson told a webinar at...
Sports imitates life. And vice versa. Over at Sports Illustrated last week, Connor Orr put forth an intriguing analysis of “Why the Patriots’ Open...
The question put to me for today is: what are some aspects of the Western way of maritime war that opponents can exploit? I...
Not long ago I wrote in these pixels that there is a “beautiful stability” to U.S. foreign policy. In general, that’s a good thing....
Use mercy well. Cruelty too. That’s the advice Renaissance Florentine statesman-philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli would tender as the Pentagon sets out to purge “extremism”—shorthand for...