2020 Issues in National Security Lecture: James Holmes on U.S. Naval Power in the Pacific
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 13/05/2020

Professor James Holmes delivers the speech "U.S. Naval Power in the Pacific" for 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A session.
 
James Holmes holds the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and served on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. A former U.S. Navy surface-warfare officer, he was the last gunnery officer in history to fire a battleship’s big guns in anger, during the first Gulf War in 1991. He earned the Naval War College Foundation Award in 1994, signifying the top graduate in his class. His books include "Red Star over the Pacific," an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of 2010 and a fixture on the Navy Professional Reading List. Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis deems him “troublesome.”
 
About the Lecture Series
 
The Issues in National Security lectures were specifically designed to offer scholarly lectures to the spouses, partners and significant others of military/civilian employees assigned to the Naval War College and Naval Station Newport and its tenant activities, Foundation members and local-area retirees or active/reserve personnel. Participation has always been voluntary, and neither reading assignments nor written requirements have been required. Four lectures were held prior to the series being suspended due to the pandemic.