The head of the Royal Navy has issued a staunch defence of "gunboat diplomacy" as a means of resolving disputes without risking the lives of troops. By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead 24 February ...

While gunboat diplomacy was a major facet of the “Age ... As a result, the British were resolved to act and Palmerston asked the Royal Navy to blockade Athens and, if necessary, seize Greece ...

The United States Navy is engaged in twenty-first-century “gunboat diplomacy” after it announced that a second Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer had been sent to support southern ...

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 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 ...

and Western envoys dictated what they wanted to the other side with the support of their navy without the need for operational use of ships. This threatening and common method later became known as ...

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 ...

The Navy destroyer involved in the Taiwan Strait ... This concept is called “gunboat diplomacy,” and it has worked for centuries. But it is really hard to do gunboat diplomacy if your boats ...