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James R. Holmes
James R. Holmes is a defense analyst for The Diplomat and a professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College where he specializes in U.S., Chinese and Indian maritime strategy and U.S. diplomatic and military history.
He is co-author of Red Star over the Pacific, an Atlantic Monthly Best Foreign Affairs Book for 2010 and a former US Navy surface warfare officer.
The views voiced here are his alone.
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February 27, 2014
The Essential Guide to Writing a Best-Selling Strategy
By James R. Holmes
“Overlooking the interactive nature of strategic competition amounts to unilateral intellectual disarmament.”
February 23, 2014
Strategy and the Tyranny of Maxims
By James R. Holmes
Military strategists need the intellectual toolkits to use bumper-sticker precepts knowledgeably and nimbly.
February 18, 2014
Why Every Sailor Should Read Richard McKenna
By James R. Holmes
McKenna’s books have been on the Chief of Naval Operations’ Professional Reading List for some time.
February 17, 2014
Five Ways to Make Maritime Strategists
By James R. Holmes
Strategy should be as fundamental to an officer's education as mathematics and the sciences.
February 15, 2014
How the Weak Win Wars: China Edition
By James R. Holmes
The U.S. should not take too much solace in the fact that China’s defense spending lags behind its own.
February 09, 2014
Slouching Toward Offshore Balancing
By James R. Holmes
With America facing fiscal constraints, are lawmakers are absentmindedly adopting offshore balancing?
February 04, 2014
Time: Air Power’s Great Nemesis
By James R. Holmes
Cumulative strategic bombing campaigns are rarely strategically decisive in themselves.
February 01, 2014
“Responsibility to Protect” Can’t Save Syria
By James R. Holmes
R2P is just too sweeping to be practical, including in Syria. It’s time to search for more realistic options.
January 28, 2014
Where Abe’s WWI Analogy Falls Apart
By James R. Holmes
Just one month into 2014, and the analogies to 1914 are already picking up.
January 24, 2014
The Right Way to Educate Navy Officers
By James R. Holmes
The Naval Diplomat offers a “No Officer Left Behind” solution to the STEM-Humanities debate raging inside the US Navy.
January 20, 2014
The Battle Over the Littoral Combat Ship Heats Up
By James R. Holmes
The Pentagon and the Navy seek to frame the debate over the LCS as the budget is written.
January 16, 2014
Yes, The US Navy’s Been on a Strategic Holiday
By James R. Holmes
For the past 2 decades plus the US Navy hasn’t had to fight for command of the sea. Is it now hungover?