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ThE Naval Review Summer 22 Editorial
Looking east out to sea on a blissfully beautiful day a few weeks ago, a view tempered only by the sight of clouds massing on the horizon, I had two thoughts. First, what would it have been like to stand…
The Naval Review
Editorial for Volume 110 / SuMMer 2022 / Number 3 now available
by Rear Admiral Bruce Williams CBE Click here to read on The Naval Review website
United Service (continued)
By The Late Sir Julian S. Corbett Part Two By the Editor: Sir Julian Corbett concludes his 1904 article on interservice and diplomatic cooperation, what we today would described not only as Jointness (Multi Domain Integration, if you prefer) and…
United Service
By The Late Sir Julian S. Corbett Part One By the Editor: Sir Julian Corbett is widely acknowledged as one of, if not, the pre-eminnent Naval Strategist of the 20th Century as such the 2022 Summer Edition of the Naval…
Finding Foxtrot Four
By the Editor – Do the small events matter amongst the large mayhem of a war? Unequivocally yes! Our people and their memory matter. The author drawing off his more extensive research paper looks at the tragic loss of LCU…
One Hundred Days of Putin’s War – So What?
By the Editor: The author attempts to look beyond the current realities on the ground in Ukraine and identify some key strategic themes, consequent of Putin’s War against Ukraine, that are pertinent to all beyond Ukraine’s borders – no more…
A Life in the Day of …
Lt Best RN, HMS Antelope
By the Editor – Sacrifice and duty are words easily bandied around in peacetime… perhaps Shakespeare best expressed the sentiment: “but we in it shall be remembered – We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day…
Warship Vulnerability: Lessons from the Moskva Sinking
By the Editor – Time to learn lessons – not just the Russian Navy, but in the West can we say our Navies haven’t tended towards complacency since we were last fully exposed during Op CORPORATE (Falkland’s War) four decades…
The Logistics of Ascension Island, 1982
By the Editor – Again as in the preceding article, I ask how do you view mission command or ‘Auftragstaktik’, as the author terms it below? Making things work, focussing on the outcome is writ large in this account of…
What Happens at Sea Also Matters
By the Editor – Sun Tsu advised: “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” The West declared its hand before hostilities commenced and removed the imponderables from Putin’s invasion equation.…
