Summer 2018 Into the Abyss: European Naval Power in the post-Cold War Era The first part of the title of this article is a bit of a giveaway about the author’s opinion of the second part. Jeremy Stöhs, whose book The Decline of European Naval Forces was reviewed and named as book of the quarter in the August 2018 issue of The Naval Review, doesn’t hold back. The book is a fascinating if at times chilly read as it considers the principles of sea power, looks at case studies of 11 leading European maritime countries, and delivers a convincing analysis on continent-wide decline. To coincide with…
