The U.S. Navy is engaged in gunboat diplomacy, a second Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer had been sent to the ...

For the Standard, the deployment brought to mind "gunboat diplomacy," a pillar of 19th and early 20th-century foreign policy in which force or the threat thereof was used to advance U.S. interests ...

‘These incomparably revolutionary vessels must fulfill their mission as a nuclear power’s formidable deterrent that will ...