The use of military force to secure political and diplomatic objectives has been commonplace throughout history, but gunboat ...

The Pentagon wants a U.S. Navy destroyer to help shake things ... For the Standard, the deployment brought to mind "gunboat diplomacy," a pillar of 19th and early 20th-century foreign policy ...

Like the British Royal Navy more than a century before ... Some experts have used the term “gunboat diplomacy” to refer to the more coercive use of navies; other analysts have characterized ...

The Chinese military is engaging in “gunboat diplomacy” by holding unannounced live ... Personnel onboard the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Arunta look at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy ...

Out of the 1926 political and military turmoil in China, producer-director Robert Wise has created a sensitive, personal drama, set against a background of old style US Navy gunboat diplomacy.