Category: books
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Book Review: Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy
When I began my Navy career as an enlisted nuke electrician, I was relentlessly beaten over the head with the importance of “integrity.” What is integrity? Ask any group of sailors, and they will tell you it is “doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking.” A few years later, as a midshipman at…
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Two Books for Navalists
Around the new year, it’s common to post a photo of an impressive stack of books—a public signal of ambition or discipline. I want to do something different: highlight books that work especially well together when they’re closely studied. For anyone serious about naval thinking, Seapower by Geoffrey Till and Fleet Tactics by Wayne Hughes…
William C. Spears 