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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
A Future for British Seapower and the Royal Navy?
Navies and Seapower have never been more capable, with scope and reach enabled by unparalleled technological advancement from the seabed to space, yet…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Education and Understanding: The Strategy for Sea and Space
James WE Smith’s research that focuses on advancing education and understanding of strategy and how it can help overcome issues like policy and public…
 • 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
From Neptune to the Final Frontier: A maritime renaissance
Dr James WE Smith discusses how thinking about the world around us and beyond in maritime strategic terms, from the seabed through to space, is going…
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
Seablindness and the Royal Navy after 1964
The second part of three papers that I have wrote to be published in the [UK] Naval Review Journal.
 • Dr James W.E. Smith
A Corbettian Navy through Strategic Necessity
Guest article by Dr Mark Bailey RAN. Dr Bailey reflect's on my comments on British seablindness, the importance of the sea to island states and the…
The Art of Admiralty, Maritime Strategy, and the Island Nations: Britain, Australia, and Japan
An chapter 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’
Part One of Three of a Series. An extended version of 'What is Art of Admiralty' for The Naval Review journal specially written for military personnel…
 • 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
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