What would Veteran's Day Weekend be without a vivid reminder of "Gun Boat Diplomacy," innovated by former Undersecretary of the Department of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, who went on to become the president of the United States (and he was also the guy who started the Spanish-American War while his bosses were on a junkit).
Gun Boat Diplomacy (also balled "Battleship Diplomacy") was simple: When the U.S. wanted some other country to do something, and that country didn't, the U.S. would send a battleship off the shore of the offending country and menace or out-right bombard that other country until that country, inevitably, did what they said.
Cheers!
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