Cable, James, 1920-

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Name (Latin)
Cable, James, 1920-
Date of birth
1920-11-15
Date of death
2001-09-27
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
member of the British diplomatic service
Research Associate at the Institute for Strategic Studies
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 108709941
Wikidata: Q1680116
Library of congress: n 78093780
Sources of Information
  • His Gunboat diplomacy, 1971.
  • His Gunboat diplomacy, c1981:t.p. (James Cable) CIP galley (by the same author, as Grant Hugo: Britain in tomorrow's world; Appearance and reality in international relations)
  • WW, 1980(Cable, Sir James (Eric), Ambassador to Finland since 1975; b. 11/15/20)
  • Writers dir., 1976-78(Hugo, Grant; b. 1920; British)
Wikipedia description:

Sir James Eric Sydney Cable (15 November 1920 – 27 September 2001) 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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