Argentina’s naval force, the Armada de la Republica Argentina (ARA) has a long and proud history. For many years the ARA vied with the navies of Brazil and Chile for ..
Author: Trevor Hollingsbee
Maritime security expert and columnist, Trevor Hollingsbee was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Senior Superintendent with the Hong Kong Marine Police, Assistant Secretary for Security in the British Hong Kong Government Security Branch, and Intelligence Analyst in the UK Ministry of Defence.
As an independent defence and security analyst he has had some 1,500 articles on maritime security, and geopolitical topics, published in a range of international journals and newspapers.
He is an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute, and a past Vice-Chairman of the Institute’s Hong Kong branch.
Years of international sanctions against Iran have obliged the nation’s maritime force providers to engage in large-scale reverse engineering. A wide range of foreign ..
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) very recently commissioned a 150-metre special operations support ship. The ship, Shahid Roudaki, which has ..
People’s Republic of China (PRC) President Xi Jinping has vowed to take back the “renegade province” of Taiwan during his time in office, and Beijing’s rhetoric ..
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) is responsible for maritime security within the nation’s 4.3 million square-kilometre EEZ, as well as in the waters surrounding the ..
Tokyo is taking an increasingly determined stance in relation to Beijing’s proactive strategy in Asia’s seaways. Japan’s prime focus is upon the Senkaku (Diaoyu) ..
In an unprecedented show of strength, Iran’s Islamic Republican Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) has put on a display of what an IRGCN spokesperson said were 340 recently ..
France-based defence conglomerate Naval Group very recently announced that Paris has approved the construction of an aircraft carrier to be powered by two nuclear ..
Intelligence reports indicate that the Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound effect upon the international trade in illegal narcotics. The radical reduction in airline ..
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