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Volume 114, Number 1, Winter 2026

Autumn

EDITORIAL

Chairman’s Update

Editorial

Quotes of the Quarter

The Admiralty ‘Interview’ Board is not fit for Purpose

The Art of the Admiralty

ARTICLES SECTION 1: ADDRESSING CURRENT REALITY:

Dispatches from Operation HIGHMAST No. 5 – India

Dispatches from Operation HIGHMAST No. 6 – The Red Sea

Living with the Ukraine War and its Consequences

The Admiralty ‘Interview’ Board is not fit for Purpose

The Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean: Maritime Security in a Multiplex World

Yantar Banter – CO M2C7 Reflections

War in the Arctic?

‘Global, Modern, and Ready’, or ‘Atlantic, Modernising, Inert’? Is the Royal Navy able to offer anything meaningful to secure the Indo-Pacific?

Anchoring Britain’s Defence: A Critical Examination of the Royal Navy’s role in National Security

Endgame for Seablindness: defence organisation and the future of the Royal Navy and the United States Navy

ARTICLES SECTION 2: SHAPING THE FUTURE:

The fundamentals of sea power

Naval Shipbuilding – a strategic assessment

Maritime Britain – a precious stone set in the silver sea

ARTICLES SECTION 3: LEARNING FROM THE PAST

The Silent Admiral: An overview of the life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick W Richards

HMS Shakespeare: Two Remarkable War Patrols

What does the French ‘Jeune Ecole’ theory teach us to help set up a winning Hybrid Navy?

And Finally…

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Requirements

Did we neglect Sea Control in the counter-insurgency era of defence reviews?

Investment During the COIN Era

Tactical nuclear weapons in a hypersonic world

RFA Fleet Solids Support Ships (FSSS)

Stanislav Petrov and saving the world

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