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Michael (Mike) Kane MccGwire OBE (b 1924, Madras, India) is a British international relations specialist known for his work on Cold War geopolitics and Soviet naval strategy. A former Royal Navy Commander, he was Professor of Maritime and Strategic Studies at Dalhousie University in Canada and then a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He is a well-known critic of nuclear deterrence theory. ==Early life== MccGwire grew up in British India, where his father worked for Burmah Oil Company until the 1929-34 depression. The family then moved via Lausanne (Switzerland) to settle in Swanage in England. He attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from age 13 and graduated top of his term in 1942, winning the King's Dirk which was presented to him by George VI. In May that year 17-year old MccGwire went to sea as a Midshipman, by which time half of the Dartmouth term who had graduated a year earlier had already lost their lives. In August he was on HMS Rodney (a battleship famous for its role in the Bismark sinking) when it took part in the celebrated Malta relief convoy named Operation Pedestal, in which 13 British ships were sunk but the oil tanker SS Ohio made it through. Having been involved in the North African, Sicilian and then Normandy landings, he then moved to Motor Torpedo Boats, joining (MTB 476 ) of the 30th MTB Flotilla as a First Lieutenant. In the year that they were together, these nine MTBs sank six German vessels and damaged another 12 off the coasts of France, the Netherlands and Belgium. These high speed boats each had three super-charged Merlin engines - the same as used in the Spitfires, running on high octane fuel. MTBs attacked at close quarters at night, with double skin mahogany hulls that did little to protect the people or the fuel from gunfire. The 30th flotilla was a close-knit group of men, many of whom stayed in touch until the end of their lives. At the end of WWII MccGwire was on a British destroyer in the Pacific. Then in 1947 he moved to a frigate in the Mediterranean on the Palestine Patrol, which involved leading boarding parties and taking control of the ships that were illegally carrying Jewish immigrants to Palestine. In September that year the Royal Navy sent MccGwire to the University of Cambridge, to learn Russian along with seven others including the later defector George Blake. He then returned to sea as a navigator in the Arctic, with the UK's Fisheries Protection around Norway - adjacent to the Soviet Northern Fleet. Then in 1951 MccGwire was loaned to the Australian Navy in a training role.〔Booth K et al. 1998. A Cold War life, and beyond. In ''(Security and Statecraft. The Cold War and Beyond )'' (essays in honour of Mike MccGwire). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521474535. p87-134.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael MccGwire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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