Irregular Royal Navy deployments to the Far East could not ... and it won’t stop. Quiet diplomacy won’t deter Beijing from more dangerous behaviour but will embolden it to repeat its actions.

It is hard to imagine two such different uses of the military.

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 ...

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 ...

Five Iranian gunboats failed in an attempt to seize ... But the HMS Montrose, a UK Royal Navy frigate, was escorting the oil tanker and pointed its weapons on the IRGC vessels.

Mr Morrison said his response would have been tougher, sending the Australian navy to closely monitor ... envelope with their old playbook of gunboat diplomacy. “China wants to completely ...