In honor of Information Dissemination’s fifth birthday, Galrahn has put together a fantastic set of guest posters for the month of June. Some highlights: Admiral James Stavridis on innovation and doctrine. Rear Admiral Dennis Moynihan on social media and the Navy. Andrew Erickson on China’s air-naval capabilities. Barney Rubel on China and Mahan. Chris Cavas […]
Tag: seapower
The Civilization series of games is in some sense ideal for depicting the influence of seapower on history. Civilization connects geography, technology, and economic power to military capability, re
A British civil servant receives a cryptic request from an old friend, and immediately heads to Germany. The two embark on the tiny yacht Dulcibella to explore the north German coast. The stakes are u
This is the story of a ship. That’s a great line; in its own way, it’s as memorable as “I believe in America.” In Which We Serve is surely the story of a ship, but it’s also the story of seapower. The film begins with the construction of HMS Torrin, a ship based on the […]
In 1980, the USS Nimitz sails out of Pearl Harbor and into a strange storm. On the other side, the crew finds itself in December 6, 1941. After coming to terms with the basics of the situation, Capt
In this week’s WPR column, I talk a bit about the Bold Alligator amphibious exercise: Many other navies accept the basic concepts of amphibious operations and seek to replicate those capabilitie
This post serves as introduction for a new series of posts: Seapower in Culture. Inspired in part by Alyssa Rosenberg’s work at the Center for American Progress, but also by a recent David Sirota column attacking my beloved Top Gun and by the imminent arrival of this horror, Seapower in Culture will investigate (unsurprisingly) the depiction […]
Thoughts on the recent USN rescue of Iranian fishermen: To be sure, this version of the rescue represents public relations spin, but soft power often amounts to framing narrative for the purposes of p
A couple of weeks ago, Mackenzie Eaglen and Bryan McGrath published “A Day Without Seapower,” a nightmare scenario in which Barack Obama breaks the coffee machine at the Heritage Foundatio
Some thoughts on the maritime aspects of the uprisings in North Africa: Moving forward, naval forces may perform a larger role in the eventual outcome in Libya. Military intervention of some sort remains under active consideration by NATO and the U.N., with options spanning from a blockade to a no-fly zone to forcible entry in […]