Naval War College

Today I took a field trip with my class on Transpacific Relations to the Naval War College. It's a beautiful place, right on the water in Newport, Rhode Island. Our Professor is full time faculty there (he's only adjunct at Fletcher).

Our Professor arranged for the whole trip, which was really quite thoughtful. We toured the Museum of the Naval War College and got two briefings from the faculty there--the first dealt generally with US/East Asian relations, but the second was a fairly detailed analysis of Taiwan's preparedness vis-a-vis a Chinese attack.

Pretty sobering stuff, especially when at least one of the students in the class is Taiwanese...