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The Naval Diplomat reflects on the cumulative/sequential dichotomy of understanding warfare.

The Naval Diplomat revisits the history of the framing of the 2007 U.S. Maritime Strategy.

Taiwan's got a new tool in its sea-denial toolkit.

What should be the factors informing U.S. strategy in the Arctic Ocean?

How much does the ancient game of Go, or weiqi, reveal about Chinese military strategy?

The battlecruiser experiment illustrates the perils of constructing a ship to fight one way and then using it to fight another.

Lasers won't solve all the problems facing naval weaponeers, but they'll help address quite a few of them.

In training a new generation of strategists, its best worth recalling Aristotle's sage advice: strategy is a habit.

Let's not rush to mock Hagel for citing the War of 1812 as a precedent for contemporary strategy. He has a point.

There's reason to be grateful that the outcomes of wars aren't determined by committee.

Scratching your head over Hagel's resignation? Let Niccolò Machiavelli explain!

Reason guides realism, but passion is indispensable in the execution of policy.