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Sea Control 36 (East Atlantic) – NATO Defense Spending
Your monthly East Atlantic edition of Sea Control brings you Alex Clarke with a panel on the state of NATO’s defense spending in the UK and Continental Europe, and whether this spending is sufficient...
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Sea Control 40 (East Atlantic) – Defense Cooperation
Alex Clarke is joined by the cadre in a third panel discussion for the East Atlantic Series. They discuss multination forces: whether and how nations should combine together to maximize security and...
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Solution to the Russian Mistral’s Conundrum: NATO Flagships
As reported by our friend Sam last week, there is a answer to the quandry about the French sale of the two MISTRAL amphibious assault ships to the Russians. It really is the most logical and face...
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The Defence Debate – why the UK needs to change the subject
The centre pieces of the future Royal Navy, without enough Type 26 Frigates to provide for wider presence and escort, or combat aircraft, they will be very much limited in terms of providing the...
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NATO: Operational or Apsirational?
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” – Morelly/Blanc/Marx/Soviet Union/etc For an organization based on “collective security,” using socialist/communist guidance isn’t...
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On Midrats 30 Aug 2015 – Episode 295: “NATO Goes Back to Fundamentals” With...
Please join us at 5pm (EDT) on 30 Aug 2015 for Midrats Episode 295: “NATO Goes Back to Fundamentals” With Jorge Benitez: From the Balitic to the Black Sea, the last year has seen the North Atlantic...
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Yours, Mine, and Moscow’s: Breaking Down Russia’s Latest Arctic Claims
Good Sunday morning of Women in Writing Week! This article originally appeared at CIMSEC. It is cross-posted here with the author’s permission. On August 4th, the Russian Federation’s Foreign Ministry...
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Allies: A Gold Standard in Peace; Possible Wartime Pyrite
This week gave another example why some concepts should give all navalists pause – things such as “1,000 Ship Navy,” “Cooperative Maritime Partnership,” or the rather curious hope a few years ago that...
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Time to Think About the Atlantic
“Hey 1980s! The second decade of the 21st century is on the POTS line, and they are wondering if they could make some copies of your stuff in the vault.” As history shows, most times you don’t pick a...
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A Munich Moment
Yesterday, Richard Fontaine over at WarOnTheRocks provided one of the better summaries I have read about what was floating around in the ether at this year’s Munich Security Conference. As a result of...
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Baltic Unity: NATO Unity
16 ships from 9 nations (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States) maneuvered in close formation for a surface ship Photo Exercise, 9 June...
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We Need a Branch Plan for Turkey
From our seats in North America, the best response to the upheaval in Turkey over the last week is to be calm up front, but task a little extra work in the back office behind the door. Political chaos...
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Is NAXIT (NATO Exit) An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Maybe President Recep Erdogan is not the only one who can take advantage of an opportunity. This idea came to me as I calmed down over the anger rising up within me over Erdogan’s demand for his...
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On Midrats 24 July 2016 – Episode 342: Turkey, Erdoğan & its Miltary – with...
Please join us at 5pm EDT (US) for Midrats Episode 342: Turkey ,Erdoğan & its Miltary – with Ryan Evans: The events of the last week in Turkey brought that critically important nation in to focus,...
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