James Cable

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1920 –

82

Who is James Cable?

Major Sir James Eric Sydney Cable, KCVO, CMG, was a British diplomat and naval strategic thinker. As an author, he became well known for a series of his works published between 1971 and 1994 about gunboat diplomacy. The Telegraph described him as "one of the most influential naval strategic thinkers of the last half-century". During the Second World War he served as an officer in the British Army.

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Born
Nov 15, 1920
Also known as
  • Grant Hugo
Education
  • Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Died
Apr 27, 2024

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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