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Britain Needs Admiralty not a Ministry of War.
Restoration of national strategy hand-in-hand with fundamental defence organisational change is the key to the successful defence of Britain & its…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Why Lord Nelson matters in 2025
Lord Nelson has much insight to offer to this day, ranging from the role of navies, the future of war––from seabed to space––and leadership in defence…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
250 years of American military ambition at sea
Today marks 250 years of the United States of America looking to the seas as a place to be a military and naval power.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
A 'Note' about a U.S. Department of War.
Renaming the Department of Defense to Department of War is playing with old divisions, debates and issues that today's nation has little knowledge and…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Timid Britain is afraid of Maritime-led Global Strategy
UK 2025 'Defence Review' unpicked.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Restore the British Way of War & Keeping the Peace
Warships IFR Magazine Article May 2025.
 • 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.
 • 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…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
The Future of the Royal Navy Rests on Restoring British National Strategy.
Warships IFR Magazine Article June 2024.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
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?
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
The British Way of War and Corbett are Imperial? What nonsense.
Strategic experience and geographic realities quickly snap things into focus for island nations.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Let them read complex strategic studies scholarship: they'll flourish.
Don't hold new generations back out of misguided concern to what they want to learn about strategic studies and applied history. Arm them with the…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
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