In the matter of war, the American language creates its own ... or the imminent threat of force (as in the “gunboat diplomacy” of the 1850s), to achieve national ends. *As of November 2018.

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 ...

Baker notes: Hard power has long been an instrument of influence for American presidents, going back to the days of gunboat diplomacy through more than two decades of war after the terrorist ...