Dr. James WE Smith

Learning from the Royal Navy: Lessons for the USN on Sea Power Politics​

U.S. Centre for Maritime Strategy paper April 2025

Apr 30 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

Restore the British Way of War & Keeping the Peace

Warships IFR Magazine Article May 2025.

Apr 20 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

Education and Understanding: The Strategy for Sea and Space

Briefly discuss my work highlighted in the King's Impact Research Report: navigating the relationship between education and strategy, and why…

Apr 2 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

August 2024

Reforge Britannia’s Trident or Close the Shop?

Third part of series of papers for the (UK) Naval Review Journal reflecting on the urgent need for reform of navies as they face a crisis over the…

Aug 20, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

Education of seapower transcends a change of government

Warships IFR Magazine Article September 2024.  The politicization of defence is undermining a national strategy and the shape of navies warn us so.

Aug 16, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

Is it time to Revisit Defence Unification?

Organisational Utopias for defence do not exist and bruiting centralization and jointness for the sake of it avoid the big questions. Is it time to…

Aug 12, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

July 2024

From Neptune to the Final Frontier: A Maritime Renaissance

I discuss how thinking about the world around us and beyond in maritime strategic terms, from the seabed through to space, is going through a…

Jul 2, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

May 2024

The Future of the Royal Navy Rests on Restoring British National Strategy.

Warships IFR Magazine Article June 2024.

May 8, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

Episode 1: 'The Art of Admiralty' Versus Seablindness

What is the Art of Admiralty?

May 1, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

18:34

April 2024

Only strategic peril exists when failing to understand what it means to be an Island Nation.

Britain was once good at seapower, but out of the Islands of Britain, Australia, and Japan, who will be in the future?

Apr 17, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

Talking Space Power and Irregular Warfare in Space

Dr James WE Smith hosts Dr John 'Patsy' Klein to discuss space security, space warfare and the current state of thought about the future of defence in…

Apr 10, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith

1:28:35

The British Way of War and Corbett are Imperial? What nonsense.

Strategic experience and geographic realities quickly snap things into focus for island nations.

Apr 8, 2024 • 

Dr James W.E. Smith