Blog: The Current Crisis in Ukraine
Last week’s apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines emphasises an immediate strategic vulnerability to European energy supplies; however, there are wider implications in terms of maritime economic warfare and protecting sub-sea critical infrastructure. Sub-sea infrastructure has existed since 1850…
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…
by Rear Admiral Bruce Williams CBE Click here to read on The Naval Review website
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
