Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis: 2034 A novel of the next World War, PENGUIN PRESS New York 2021, 303 p. In the mid-1980s, a new genre was introduced to the literary world with the publication of Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" and "Red Storm Rising": The influence of new...
Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.): The Sailor's Bookshelf. Fifty Books to know the Sea, USNI 23 November 2021, 232 pp. With this book, Admiral Stavridis remains true to his love: the sea and books about it. He has selected 50 books from the multitude and variety of books that he...
Jeremy Black: Logistics. The Key to Victory, Pen & Sword Books, distributed by USNI, 216 pp. Rightly published in the UK in 2021, the book is also distributed by the USNI to reach a much wider readership. Although all Army, Air Force and Navy commanders recognise the critical importance of...
RADM Dave Oliver, USN (ret.): A Navy Admiral's Bronze Rules: Managing Risk and Leadership, USNI, 252 pp. While there is still hardly any literature in German-speaking countries on the leadership experiences and recommendations of generals and admirals that would be suitable for future generations of officers, the U S Naval Institute (USNI) in Annapolis...
With this book, the author would like to take us on a historical and security policy journey into the 1990s. He describes small and large events from his time as defence attaché in Poland from 1994 to 1998. At that time, the Federal Republic of Germany was already in its fourth...
Almost simultaneously with the article by K.z.S Nils Brandt, Commander SSS Gorch Fock, on the importance of sail training for the prospective naval officers of the German Navy on 19 July 2021 in MarineForum Online, the second edition of Saltwater Leadership will be published by the U.S. Naval Institute in August this year. Written by...
In his recently published book, Hugues Canuel, a naval officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, examines 25 years of French naval policy, which, after France's defeat in the Second World War, attempted to establish an independent, independent navy during the period of the armistice, the resistance against Germany, the alliance with the USA and Great Britain and the years of the Cold War....
The renowned British naval historian Eric Grove passed away on 15 April 2021. Alongside Colin Gray († 2020) and Geoffrey Till, who now works at the US Naval War College, Grove (*1948) was regarded as one of the most important British naval scientists of the 20th century. Grove's career took him from King's College London to the Royal...
It's the book that many of us found in our navchaps on our first sea watch. The book that was pressed into your hand when you asked the inexperienced question about the foreign warship you had just spotted: "here, find out for yourself". Years followed in which Weyer's was the constant companion...
In the wars of past centuries, it was essentially a question of who could assemble the largest armed force with the most weapons behind them. However, the advancing technologisation did not stop at the armed forces and so such armies were able to gain a dominant position that could defeat superior or even completely...
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