Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat
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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...
Chinese and American strategists, past and present, delight in invoking sporting metaphors to explain how they intend to do business. Sports talk commonly conjures...
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...