News, Articles and Comment

Ed. The author reviews Admiral Reinhard Scheer’s untranslated autobiography, From Sailing Ship to U-boat (1925), to shed light on the Imperial German Navy and Scheer’s role within it. A 20 minute read.

Ed. With eyes turned towards a potential Integrated Defence and Security Review, and armed with a sweeping appreciation of British maritime history, the author targets conventional assumptions and challenges Defence planners to make bold decisions whilst moving beyond comforting platitudes. A 25 minute read.

Ed. The author explores the fascinating early modern history of the Scottish Navy and the origins of the Royal Navy itself. A 15 minute read.

Ed. The author is seriously worried about the viability of the RN and suggests that the new government may discover that a new class of corvettes provides the answer…

Ed. The third article from the NR archives in our series on Operation OVERLORD for the 80^th Anniversary. The author considered the development of combined operations, logistics and equipment as background on the OVERLORD planning process. Originally published in January 1961 [49/1, p. 18]. A 30 minute read.

Ed. From our archives for the 80^th Anniversary of D-Day, the Naval Review presents the first of a series of articles on Operation OVERLORD. This article, a retrospective on the preparations and naval bombardment from the perspective of Force E flagship HMS Belfast, was originally published in 1994 [82/2, p. 102], for the 50^th Anniversary. A 15 minute read.

Ed. With 1SL’s 2024 Seapower Conference in mind, the author reflects on the chequered legacy of RN technical developments and procurement over the past 20 years, and considers priorities for the next decades. A 10 minute read.

Ed. RAdm James Goldrick RAN provided the first chapter to the NR’s centenary publication, Dreadnought to Daring (2012), in which he conducted a prosopographical study of the Naval Review’s founders. A 50 minute read.

Ed. This article, drawing on German-language sources, presents a fresh biographical sketch of Maximilian von Spee’s naval career, a man of his time who realistically embodied German sea power, in the Mahanian tradition, until his demise at the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914. A 20 minute read.