'What is Seapower?' by Professor Andrew Lambert.
Filmed at the US Naval Academy for usnahistory
youtube.com/watch?v=Sh1UJX…

We will have some exciting news to share about the project shortly, as well as about plans to preserve the legacy of Corbett and educate about Sir Julian, which was one of the aims of the original project.

Interesting podcast attached, who else beyond Corbett & Mahan have helped advance understanding of the sea, seapower, navies and maritime strategy? Corbett & Mahan went futher & farther than the rest & have rose to the most promience.

History has once again shown the fallacy of arguments by those who argued against Corbett’s maritime & Mahan's naval strategic counsel as irrelevant to the 21st century. Defence of trade is the cornerstone of global civilisation & in some cases, the lifeblood of nations.

'Corbett’s work suffered the cruellest of fates, derided by those it had been designed to help, disparaged by those who would exploit it in the next great conflict, & popularised by a journalist to effect that few realise who created the ‘British way of war’.'
––Prof. A Lambert.

A reminder the opening of the Second World War was classically Corbettian. The hunting down of threats to trade was a natural instinct for a seapower state navy nor was the Royal Navy going to sit idle at anchor waiting to see what the other services did, or did not do.

The question remains if navies and in particular island nation navies are listening to debate & scholars on Corbett & maritime strategy for today and tommorow? If the Royal Navy is, as once did, remains an open question...
naval-review.com/book-reviews/t…

Sir Julian Corbett's work and its relevancy to #Space will on the table of discussion for a conversation between the Laughton-Corbett Research Fellow Dr James WE Smith & guest Dr John Klein who will discuss #spacepower & #spacewarfare 30 Jan 2024.
kcl.ac.uk/events/space-p…

For too long Corbett and Mahan have been divided by some contemporary scholars who thought to get the best results to pitch eithers work against one another.

This was foolish.

The American Spectator reviews 21st Century Mahan & his contiuning relevance.
spectator.org/the-continuing…

'...for Napoleon, at the zenith of his power, the one fragment of success that was left to England in Europe was unendurable to the pride which had been so completely humbled at sea.'
Corbett, Julian S.. The Campaign of Trafalgar (p. 422).

Dr Smith and Dr Klein have been writing and researching 'Corbett in orbit' and 'Corbett in Space', so expect Sir Julian to feature in this lecture about #spacestrategy #spacewarfare and explore Klein's work on #irregularwarfareinspace

Release of the first Corbett 100 related publication is imminent with much of it public access.

Dr Smith's PhD thesis and forthcoming book builds on new materials and records from Sir Julian Corbett, in particular Corbett's unfinished scholarship including what he would have worked on in the 1920s.

Our Armed Forces risked everything to protect us, despite never meeting us.

They passed on the baton: it's now our duty to serve and remember their sacrifices.

#Remembrance

An elegant collection of Corbett’s output. Perhaps modern ‘bindings’ are a little underwhelming?

Nelson & Co might as well have stayed at home then . The Royal Navy is the first and last defence of England, but seapower is far more than an anti-invasion force. “In the culture of an island, risk & chance are unacceptable gambles.”
See JSC and the ‘Campaign of Trafalgar.’

“If our nature is characterised by our myths and legends, then 🇦🇺 is not a maritime nation. As a people, we are happy to lie at the beach & toss pebbles at the waves, or turn our back upon it and fix our gaze on the dusty enormity of our island continent”. navalinstitute.com.au/the-importance…

Dr. James W.E. Smith Just to add that what Corbett understood as others have not was that Nelson was exercising the control of the sea that Britain had achieved during the 1790s. He ensured that the enemy understood that Britain would not tolerate any challenge to that control.

“Corbett’s masterful study of the campaign of Trafalgar was to emphasise the battle less but set it in the context of a #nationalstrategy , one where #maritimestrategy was central and one based on centuries of both #nationalpolicy and military experience. He proved & evidenced…

' #Trafalgar is ranked as one of the decisive battles of the world, & yet of all the great victories there is not one which to all appearance was so barren of immediate result. It had brought to a triumphant conclusion one of the most masterly & complex sea campaigns in history.'