{"id":10330,"date":"2013-12-24T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10330"},"modified":"2013-12-24T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T13:08:03","slug":"naming-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/naming-warships\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming Warships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/122413_1303_NamingWarsh1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Peck wrote about some of the touchier geopolitics of naming warships:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canada recently revealed the HMCS Queenston and HMCS Chateauguay. The battles of Queenston Heights and Chateauguay were cases of humiliating defeats of American troops by Canadian forces.<\/li>\n<li>America, too, has a rich tradition of naming ships after battles in which they defeated contemporary allies.<\/li>\n<li>British soldiers, for example, have to conduct joint exercises alongside the USS Bunker Hill, USS Cowpens, and the USS Lake Champlain.<\/li>\n<li>The Japanese must tolerate the American USS Iwo Jima and USS Leyte Gulf.<\/li>\n<li>Even America&#8217;s domestic enemies have to deal with the USS Gettysburg and USS Vicksburg.<\/li>\n<li>But it&#8217;s not just North America. Britain gleefully launched the submarine HMS Trafalgar not too far from French shores.<\/li>\n<li>The only nations that can&#8217;t seem to engage in the practice are defeated Axis Powers. There are, for example, no Japanese warships named after Pearl Harbor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more examples of sensitive warship names over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2013\/12\/23\/northern_fights_canada_navy#sthash.ffdonx8P.Vh8a7frh.dpbs\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2013\/12\/23\/northern_fights_canada_navy#sthash.ffdonx8P.Vh8a7frh.dpbs\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Peck wrote about some of the touchier geopolitics of naming warships: Canada recently revealed the HMCS Queenston and HMCS Chateauguay. The battles of Queenston Heights and Chateauguay were cases of humiliating defeats of American troops by Canadian forces. America, too, has a rich tradition of naming ships after battles in which they defeated contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/122413_1303_NamingWarsh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10333,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330\/revisions\/10333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}