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Paper 3: The Baseline Problem: Attention Relative to What?

Posted on September 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The Question Paper 2 Left Open Paper 2 built a numerator. It specified seven instruments for measuring how much attention each Pacific War operation currently receives, named the bias in each, and proposed a rank-normalized composite for use in … Continue reading →

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Paper 2: Measuring Neglect: Instruments, Biases, and a Proposed Attention Index for Pacific War Operations

Posted on September 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Why This Paper Comes First The suite’s governing claim is that attention to Pacific War operations is distributed in a patterned way that does not track operational weight, casualties, or strategic consequence. That is an empirical claim. It can … Continue reading →

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Attention and the Central Pacific: A Study in How Campaigns Are Remembered: An Introduction

Posted on September 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Statement of the Problem Between November 1943 and November 1944 the United States conducted the largest amphibious advance in its history, crossed roughly four thousand miles of ocean, destroyed the Japanese carrier air arm, neutralized several hundred thousand enemy troops … Continue reading →

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Fort Brooke and Tampa in the Civil War: The Blockaded Storehouse (1861–1865)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines the role of Fort Brooke and the town of Tampa in the American Civil War, arguing that the bay’s importance in these years was economic before it was tactical. Tampa was a small and remote Gulf … Continue reading →

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Pirates, Privateers, and the Contested Gulf: Maritime Predation off Tampa Bay (1700s–1820s)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines maritime predation in the Gulf waters off Tampa Bay across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and it does so with a deliberate methodological aim: to separate what the documentary record supports from what later civic … Continue reading →

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Tortured by the Court He Saved: Yi Sun-sin and the Imjin War

Posted on June 5, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Why this case is the suite’s most acute instance of the central cruelty The phenomenon, in most of its instances, completes its work after the deliverance is accomplished, the regime turning on the savior once the danger has passed … Continue reading →

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Cape Esperance as Prepared Ground: The Logic of Decisive Fleet Battles in Bravian Naval Doctrine: An Academic Study of the First and Second Battles of Cape Esperance and What Their Recurrence at Identical Ground Reveals About Bravian Military Doctrine

Posted on April 6, 2026 by nathanalbright

Department of Military History and Strategic Studies Provincial College of Porterville, Year 3015 Abstract Twice in Bravian history — separated by approximately 150 years — a powerful hostile naval force met complete destruction in the waters off Cape Esperance at … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Lessons from Early Naval Warfare: Sea Lanes, Ports, Blockade, and Fleet Presence as Templates for Space Strategy

Posted on March 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The history of naval warfare from the age of sail through the era of steam-powered sea power offers the most fully developed body of strategic theory, operational experience, and institutional learning available for the analysis of competition and conflict … Continue reading →

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White Paper: United States Naval Pressure on Iran: Historical and Legal Analysis

Posted on January 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary In early 2026 the United States significantly increased its naval presence in the Middle East, deploying one or more aircraft carrier strike groups near Iranian waters and signaling the potential use of maritime coercion to restrict Iran’s oil … Continue reading →

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Decisive Battles Of The World: The Battle Of St. George’s Caye

Posted on February 18, 2025 by nathanalbright

Introduction The Battle of St. George’s Caye, fought from September 3 to September 10, 1798, was the defining military engagement that solidified British control over Belize (then known as British Honduras) against Spanish incursions. Though relatively small in scale, the … Continue reading →

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