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BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers Benjamin F. Armstrong’s collection of essays by and examination of Mahan’s thinking on seapower.

Ed. An important survey of Russian naval history and naval ambitions from the Great Northern War to the Putin era, demonstrating, the author contends, a perpetual inability to intuit technological modernity. A 25 minute read.

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 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…

BRE. The latest book reviews are now available. The first considers a previously unpublished manuscript by Vice Admiral Sir Peter Gretton examining the Battle of the Atlantic. The second considers the latest volume from the Navy Records Society examining naval planning for the immediate post-Second World War period.

Ed. The author, a consultant for DRASS, challenges the conventional wisdom that modern, non-nuclear submarines must necessarily be large, fast, heavily armed and expensive platforms. A 25 minute read.

Ed. There are hundreds of lessons we have learned from the Second World War, here are three important ones to reflect upon today as we commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day.

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.