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 ...

Politicians in the UK and the EU have widely criticised the plans, deeming them "irresponsible" and reminiscent of "19th-century gunboat diplomacy". Plans to deploy Royal Navy ships to patrol UK ...

The head of the Royal Navy has issued a staunch defence of “gunboat diplomacy”. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content ...

it is almost certainly not be the last time that such gunboat diplomacy will come to be employed. Our offshore patrol vessels and other ships of the Royal Navy could be looking at a busy time in ...

Gunboat diplomacy lived on during the Cold War ... carriers won’t be lined up – like the often seen footage of Royal Navy warships during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World ...

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 ...

The Peruvian gunboat Loreto should not be the pride and joy of anyone’s navy. Built in England in 1932, it makes a mere twelve knots at flank speed and looks like a cross between the Merrimac ...

Over the past few days, the Australian media has been dominated by the activities of the Chinese navy’s Task Group ... with accusations of “gunboat diplomacy” being bandied around.

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 ...