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General, Leadership, Letters, People, Royal Marines, Service Culture, The Naval Review
1 minute, 49 seconds

Letter to the Editor: A Royal Marine route to First Sea Lord (2)

By David Collins,
05 Sep 23

Ed. The author agrees with CDR de Silva that much has changed in the “promotion sweepstakes” but that service culture bottlenecks and educational barriers still linger.

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Armed Forces, Defence Industry, Deterrence, Diplomacy, Europe, General, Geopolitics, Letters, Maritime Strategy, National Defence, Naval History, Second World War, Strategy, The Naval Review
1 minute, 18 seconds

Letter to the Editor: Appeasement

By Roger Plumtree,
31 Aug 23

Ed. No stranger to historical debate, the author defends the appeasement policy of the late 1930s in view of the dire need to buy time for rapid rearmament.

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Letters, General, Leadership, People, Royal Marines, Service Culture, The Naval Review
3 minutes, 47 seconds

Letter to the Editor: A Royal Marine route to First Sea Lord

By Cdr Rob Scott RN,
17 Aug 23

Ed. The author responds to CDR Oliver de Silva’s featured article (111/3, p. 66) and raises some qualifications about the future of the Royal Marines within the Navy’s service culture.

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Letters, Armed Forces, Civil-Military Relations, Defence Engagement, Dockyards & Ports, General, National Defence, Naval Platforms
1 minute, 47 seconds

Letter to the Editor: The Emperor’s Clothes

By Tearless,
17 Aug 23

Ed. The author expresses their concern with the condition of the ships in Portsmouth Harbour, and what image the RN conveys to the public, both domestic and foreign.

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Letters, Diversity & Inclusion, General, People, The Naval Review
1 minute, 18 seconds

Letter to the Editor: Time to Think

By WatchOnStopOn,
01 Aug 23

Ed. The author echoes the sentiment of Jackthelad that, for the NR to grow its membership, it must recognize the reality of both time constraints and the issues that matter to the current generation of Service personnel. Three of the eight founding members of the NR were Lieutenants who no doubt recognised the risk to their careers they were making by joining the ranks of an organisation that was not universally welcomed. Nothing gets changed by saying nowt, so my plea to WatchOnStopOn and your contemporaries is write and we will publish, the Naval Review belongs to all of its membership. I am the Editor – not the censor.

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Letters, Budgets and Finance, Deterrence, Equipment Capability, National Defence, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, Submarines
1 minute, 45 seconds

Letter to the Editor: Laying a Ghost

By VICE ADMIRAL SIR JEREMY BLACKHAM,
11 Jul 23

Ed. Jeremy Blackham raises the alarm concerning the future costs of nuclear weapons modernization, which will have to be managed alongside a vast array of conventional forces recapitalization.

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Arms Control, Defence Reviews, Deterrence, Letters, National Defence, Strategy, The Naval Review, Ukraine
2 minutes, 52 seconds

Letter to the Editor: Standing Into Danger

By VICE ADMIRAL SIR JEREMY BLACKHAM,
15 Jun 23

Ed. Jeremy Blackham highlights the weaknesses of Britain’s current strategic assumptions, demonstrated by the failure of the Western powers to prevent the Ukraine War despite ample warning.

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Deterrence, Equipment Capability, Force Structure, Geopolitics, Letters, National Defence, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, Strategy, Technology
2 minutes, 12 seconds

Letter to the Editor: Strategic Choices for Defence

By DAN CONLEY,
06 Jun 23

Ed. The author responds to Sir Jeremy Blackham’s recent article concerning the future of Britain’s nuclear and conventional deterrence.

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Learning From The Past, Admiralty, Budgets and Finance, Defence Reviews, Doctrine, Equipment Capability, General, Historiography, Leadership, Letters, Maritime Strategy, National Defence, Naval History, People, The Naval Review, Uncategorized
0 minutes, 2 seconds

Rear Admiral James Goldrick, AO CSC Naval Review Archive

By MASTER NED,
03 Jun 23

Ed. As a memorial and in tribute of his extensive contributions, the Digital and Editorial teams have compiled a complete archive of James Goldrick’s Naval Review letters, articles, reviews and eulogies.

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