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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…
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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.
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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…
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Timid Britain is afraid of Maritime-led Global Strategy
UK 2025 'Defence Review' unpicked.
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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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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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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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'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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