Sir Julian Corbett Project

Corbett 100 marks the centenary of the death of historian, strategist & philosopher of seapower and maritime strategy, Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922).

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: King's College London, LONDON, 31st May 2019: Corbett 100 Project launched. https://t.co/fKZiQXwMCC

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This account is now archived. You can follow the next steps of the Corbett 100 project via https://t.co/MeCo91BNfD or follow @James_WE_Smith

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'What is Seapower?' by Professor Andrew Lambert.
Filmed at the US Naval Academy for @usnahistory
https://t.co/syHK6eUFXr

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We will have some exciting news to share about the project shortly, as well as about plans to preserve the legacy of Corbett and educate about Sir Julian, which was one of the aims of the original project.

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History has once again shown the fallacy of arguments by those who argued against Corbett’s maritime & Mahan's naval strategic counsel as irrelevant to the 21st century. Defence of trade is the cornerstone of global civilisation & in some cases, the lifeblood of nations.

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

@brucebrookings 11/Now the ocean carriers, with power similar to the British East India Company of old, are mandating actions by the world governments and their military to make the seas safe.

But the damage is already done as rates, stock prices & inflation rise.

Who is the PIRATE?

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"Corbett’s work suffered the cruellest of fates, derided by those it had been designed to help, disparaged by those who would exploit it in the next great conflict, & popularised by a journalist to effect that few realise who created the ‘British way of war’."
––Prof. A Lambert.

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A reminder the opening of the Second World War was classically Corbettian. The hunting down of threats to trade was a natural instinct for a seapower state navy nor was the Royal Navy going to sit idle at anchor waiting to see what the other services did, or did not do.

[Society for Nautical Research @NauticalHistory]

⚓ #OnThisDay in 1939 ⚓

The Battle of the River Plate took place.

This battle was one of the most iconic battles of the Second World War.

🔊 To learn more, listen to The Mariner's Mirror Podcast episode on this Great Sea Fight here:
https://t.co/Dk6BsbtKcR

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The question remains if navies and in particular island nation navies are listening to debate & scholars on Corbett & maritime strategy for today and tommorow? If the Royal Navy is, as once did, remains an open question...
https://t.co/twPj5g9uhQ

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Sir Julian Corbett's work and its relevancy to #Space will on the table of discussion for a conversation between the Laughton-Corbett Research Fellow Dr James WE Smith & guest Dr John Klein who will discuss #spacepower & #spacewarfare 30 Jan 2024.
https://t.co/cLsPsmbzH2

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For too long Corbett and Mahan have been divided by some contemporary scholars who thought to get the best results to pitch eithers work against one another.

This was foolish.

The American Spectator reviews 21st Century Mahan & his contiuning relevance.
https://t.co/0lOCsOR1cz

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"...for Napoleon, at the zenith of his power, the one fragment of success that was left to England in Europe was unendurable to the pride which had been so completely humbled at sea."
Corbett, Julian S.. The Campaign of Trafalgar (p. 422).

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Dr Smith and Dr Klein have been writing and researching 'Corbett in orbit' and 'Corbett in Space', so expect Sir Julian to feature in this lecture about #spacestrategy #spacewarfare and explore Klein's work on #irregularwarfareinspace

[Dr. James W.E. Smith @James_WE_Smith]

📢Please join me and Dr John Klein online for a lecture and discussion on 🚀🛰️#spacepower and its relationship with 🌊 #navies #maritimestrategy #strategy #defencepolicy and #irregularwarfare on 30 January 2024. #space #spacewarfare #defense
Details: https://t.co/AyFFugFurH

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Release of the first Corbett 100 related publication is imminent with much of it public access.

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The below publication will be the first Corbett 100 document in addition to the other outputs. It should be released by the end of 2023 and currently due to be public-access. We will provide links and updates as soon as its available.

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Dr Smith's PhD thesis and forthcoming book builds on new materials and records from Sir Julian Corbett, in particular Corbett's unfinished scholarship including what he would have worked on in the 1920s.

[Dr. James W.E. Smith @James_WE_Smith]

“It has become clear to me after the war, that considering the many words written and to be so, that many can talk about what ships can do or bemoan the state of our forces, but many scholars, officer or otherwise, could not tell the nation or government why we have a navy or make use of a maritime strategy even if they tried.”
ADM Secretary Sir John Lang, 1961.

[Royal Navy @RoyalNavy]

Our Armed Forces risked everything to protect us, despite never meeting us.

They passed on the baton: it's now our duty to serve and remember their sacrifices.

#Remembrance

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An elegant collection of Corbett’s output. Perhaps modern ‘bindings’ are a little underwhelming?

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@surprisepodcast That’s something our team has been contributing the debate on, alongside others and hopefully those points and facts will be useful to those there (& beyond).

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“If our nature is characterised by our myths and legends, then 🇦🇺 is not a maritime nation. As a people, we are happy to lie at the beach & toss pebbles at the waves, or turn our back upon it and fix our gaze on the dusty enormity of our island continent”. https://t.co/o5gMImt3TF

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Nelson & Co might as well have stayed at home then . The Royal Navy is the first and last defence of England, but seapower is far more than an anti-invasion force. “In the culture of an island, risk & chance are unacceptable gambles.”
See JSC and the ‘Campaign of Trafalgar.’

[Dr Rachel Blackman-Rogers @RBlackmanRogers]

@James_WE_Smith Just to add that what Corbett understood as others have not was that Nelson was exercising the control of the sea that Britain had achieved during the 1790s. He ensured that the enemy understood that Britain would not tolerate any challenge to that control.

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"#Trafalgar is ranked as one of the decisive battles of the world, & yet of all the great victories there is not one which to all appearance was so barren of immediate result. It had brought to a triumphant conclusion one of the most masterly & complex sea campaigns in history."