Jon Sumida

Jon Tetsuro Sumida is the author of Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered (1997), and Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War (2008). He is professor of history at the University of Maryland.

Articles by Jon Sumida

Challenging Parkinson’s Law

By Jon Sumida

December 1994

The theory that work expands to fill the time available to complete a task does not apply to the Royal Navy.

Fisher’s Naval Revolution

By Jon Sumida

August 1996

As First Sea Lord Vice Admiral Sir John Fisher launched a strategy based more on economic reality and the real needs of the Royal Navy.

David Syrett: A Tribute

By Dr. Jon T. Sumida

April 2005

The story of the Royal Navy in the American was a major focus of David Syrett’s career.

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Sir James Cable, Jon T. Sumida, Major Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps, David F. Trask, & Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. CUTLER, U.S. Navy (Retired)

December 1995

Mers El-Kebir (1940): La rupture franco-britannique Herve Coutau-Begarie and Claude Huan. Paris: Economica 1994. $54-00 ($51.30). Reviewed by Sir James Cable In the long history of Anglo-French naval encounters, the ...