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Seablindness Rules Britannia.
From the Red Sea’s trade routes to Whitehall’s policy frameworks and into classroom curricula, a persistent issue emerges: seablindness, and now, it is…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Endgame for Seablindness: defence organisation and the future of the Royal Navy and the United States Navy
Navies must reinvent themselves and retake the lead on defence organisation. Their futures, that of national defence strategy and warfare may very well…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
The Future of Defence Organisation Resurfaces?
How defence is organised is fundamental in enabling or hindering national policy and strategy in peace and wartime.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
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…
 • 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 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…
 • 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.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
The Art of Admiralty, Maritime Strategy, and the Island Nations: Britain, Australia, and Japan
An chapther for the ADFA/ANI Publication.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Sir Julian Corbett and Maritime Strategy at 100: A Long Hard Look in the Mirror
A century after the death for Sir Julian Corbett, I reflected on the implications of Corbett’s maritime strategic thought for Britain’s evolving defence…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
The Admiralty and the ‘Art of Admiralty’
An extended version of 'What is Art of Admiralty' for The Naval Review journal specially written for military personnel and civilian defence staff.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Re-learning from Corbett: Applied History to the Rescue of Strategic Thought
Applied History is needed to answer the questions high-level decision makers have on the future of national defence strategy.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
New Research into the History, Theory and Practice of Naval Wargaming
The new history of the roots of British wargaming takes form.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
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