Blog: The Current Crisis in Ukraine
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…
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…
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.…
By the Editor – The nuclear Pandora’s Box has opened consequent of Putin’s War in Ukraine. Countries, such as Ukraine, who were ‘guaranteed’ inviolable sovereignty provided they relinquished nuclear weapons are perhaps now ruing the day they agreed to such…
by Rear Admiral Bruce Williams CBE Click here to read on The Naval Review website
The Naval Review is indebted to Captain Shercliff RN for sharing his Falklands story. As Commander Air (‘Wings’) of HMS HERMES in 1982, he shares his fascinating recollections of the conflict as the Officer responsible for the airborne fighting effect of an…
By the Editor – mid 20th century arrangements begin to creek up the pressures of 21st century realities. Do countries lose their legitimacy consequent of their actions? Should this be reflected in the court of international opinion – the UN. …
By the Editor – a seismic calamity unfolding that if nothing else is full of lessons – not just for the combatants but for the West across the spectrum from the tactical to the strategic. The author draws strands together…
By the Editor – We have a predilection to considering all issues in binary terms – black and white, those on the good side and those on the bad. Regrettably life is not that simple. The actions of the West,…
By the Editor: The author lays down a challenge for individual reflection on the famous names assigned to the new Inspiration-class (Type 31) general purpose frigates. It was an action, where more VCs were won more quickly than any other…
