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Ed. With due regard to technological evolution, geostrategy, and climate change, the author contemplates the historical trajectory of sea power theory, law, and its future. A 15 minute read.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book exploring the letters of Admiral Sir Bryan Godfrey-Fausset as a midshipman in the Victorian Royal Navy.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book exploring the 300-year old history of Navy Rum.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a timely edited volume on the naval history of the Middle East, providing a wide-ranging set of chapters and case studies.

Ed. The author provides an overview of the Russo-Japanese War as a watershed for the naval history of the 20^th century. A 10 minute read.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book which “presents a careful, methodologically restrained study of how Britain thought about, prepared for, and practised amphibious operations in the three decades before the First World War.”

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book providing an account of the US conquest and occupation of the Philippines at the end of the 19th century, which ‘changed the geopolitics of Asia’.

Ed. The author considers the past century of technological innovation in the USN, its impact on the Service’s officer corps and naval leadership, and proposes several possible outcomes with regard to AI integration. Originally published in the USNI’s Proceedings, December edition. A 15 minute read.

Ed. The author considers the lessons of the late-19^th century Jeune École, a historical cautionary tale reflective of the introduction of naval drone warfare. A 10 minute read.