James Cable is recommended as a prolific naval theorist of the 1970s and 1980s. His relative neglect is contrasted with the familiar names of Corbett, Mahan, Tirpitz and Fisher. Richmond also appears in the comparison as a theorist writing before the Second World War. Cable's extensive historical material forms part of an argument about naval power, so Gunboat Diplomacy combines theory with history.
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James Cable as a Cold War naval theorist
James Cable belongs alongside better-known naval thinkers because his Cold War writing joins historical cases to strategic theory.