A recent study published by the US Army War College looks at how geography constrained the Soviet military presence in the Indian Ocean and the lessons that can be drawn ..
Tag: Cold War
This fine book was reviewed here as a hardback last year. It has now been re-published in more affordable and transportable paperback format. The author retired as a comm ..
This is a most unusual tale. Wrapped around a most interesting piece of Cold War naval history is a fascinating revelation of the unfairness of the British class system a ..
I have a general rule that the only way to truly get to know a region is to travel through it by the most inconvenient means. This usually involves finding the cheapest t ..
It is difficult to reconcile the content of this book with the gutted shells of Soviet-era submarines that this reviewer observed around the creeks and backwaters of the ..
On our Commonwealth cargo liners, amid the run of the mill general cargo outbound and foodstuffs back, we would carry a fair amount of “specials” – cargo that requi ..
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) commissioned a new ocean surveillance ship into service earlier this year. Built by Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding and utilisin ..
Another in the excellent and ever lengthening series of profiles of the world’s warships from the amazing Polish Publishing house, Kagero Publishing, this one features ..
By Norman Polmar and KJ Moore
It may be hard to believe that it is now nearly thirty years since the end o ..
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