Handover of patronage and donations to the Bw_Res running team
Lieutenant General Markus Laubenthal and Siemtje Möller, Member of the Bundestag, are patrons of the fundraising runs organised by the newly founded association
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Bundeswehr and reservist running team founded as an association
The Bundeswehr and reservists running team was founded during the coronavirus pandemic and has since organised several charity runs for a good cause. Due to its great success, the joint initiative of soldiers, reservists and civilian runners is now taking the next step.
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Restriction of armaments between the world wars
The Washington Conference on the Limitation of Naval Armaments took place 100 years ago. In the course of the conference, three important treaties were agreed that shaped the political and military situation in the run-up to the Second World War. Shortly after the end of the First World War, new potential for conflict emerged among the victorious powers. The most significant factors were the escalating arms race among the remaining naval powers and the strategic competition between these states in the Pacific region. This also included the danger of aggression against a politically and militarily weak China. The situation in China was particularly precarious. The country had sided politically with the Entente powers in the First World War;...
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Logistics. The key to victory
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 logistics, studies tend to be limited to the impact of strategy, tactics used, weaponry and the influence of leaders. Jeremy Black aims to close this gap in historical research and has analysed major conflicts from the past and present in terms of the respective role of logistics. In twelve chapters, he...
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Annual Maritime Report 2021: The RCEP free trade agreement
It has become a good custom for the German Navy to present its Maritime Annual Report at the Maritime Convention, the joint event of the DMI and griephan - this year, too, in digital form on 16.11.21. We had the opportunity to browse through the current report in a wing chair over a pot of Lumumba (hot or cold cocoa with a shot of rum, with whipped cream if you like) and would like to present a few selected topics of interest here in a short series: The conclusion of negotiations on the free trade agreement "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP) on 15 November 2020 was widely hailed as an important step in the development of...
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