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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…
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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?
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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.
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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…
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The US Navy versus Seablindness: par for the course for America?
America's sea power project has some uncomfortable realities at its foundations. A different perspective, based on original research about the US Navy…
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Dr James W.E. Smith
'Seablindness' and the Royal Navy Today
The term 'seablindness' represents hiding the truth and a complete failure to understand the problem.
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America Owes James Forrestal a Great Debt
Extended Letter to the one published January 2024 US Naval Institute Proceedings Vol. 150/1/1,451
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Which US Marine Corps Commandant had the most lasting impact on the service?
Letter in November 2021 US Naval Institute Vol 147/11/1,425
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The Revolt of the Admirals and Today’s Battle Over the Defense Budget
Letter in February 2021 US Naval Institue Proceedings Vol. 147/2/1,416
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Corbett offers more on Space than Mitchell
Why a maritime strategist and historian offers more on the future of space strategy for national defence and national policy than an extremist airpower…
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Dr James W.E. Smith
Space Force Creation Warrants Revisiting Defense Unification
The creation of the Space Force ignited debate and rivalries not dissimilar to those which nearly crippled American defense in the post-World War II…
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Same Old Same with the British Army?
The British Army's message of January 2024 fell flat but it did tell us something: how land-centric thinking still dominates British defence.
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