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Scholasticism and the dark sea

Scholasticism and the dark sea

Gepostet von | 17 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

The German Navy is still essentially a peacetime navy and the officer corps is hardly tactically orientated. How can this be changed at the doctrinal level? Scholasticism was an important tradition of thought in the Middle Ages, dominated by a rigid insistence on the truth of old texts that propagated a closed world without innovation. It collapsed when the turn of the modern era exposed the scholastics' world view as false. Our country is also experiencing a moment in which a turning point is shaking the world view of political Germany. Our old scholasticism no longer offers us any answers. Germany must think war in all areas in order to become fit for war -...

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Chile: A small flotilla for the Antarctic

Chile: A small flotilla for the Antarctic

Gepostet von | 16 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

At the beginning of July, the handover and commissioning ceremony for the first icebreaker designed and built in South America, the "Almirante Viel" (111 metres, 13,000 tonnes), took place in Talcahuano/Concepcion, halfway along Chile's almost 6,500-kilometre coastline. Together with the patrol vessel "Fuentealba" (OPV80 - Fassmer design) and the tugboat "Lientur", which arrived in the last decade, the newbuild forms the Chilean triumvirate for the nation's stronger commitment to the opposite coast of the 7th continent, the...

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Finland and Estonia agree on security cooperation

Finland and Estonia agree on security cooperation

Gepostet von | 16 Oct 2024 | , , , | 0

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With mosquitoes against the bear

With mosquitoes against the bear

Gepostet von | 16 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

Interview with the former Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Igor Kabanenko, by Hans Uwe Mergener and Holger Schlüter. Can you give us an insight into the current state of the Ukrainian navy? How do you see its future? Ukraine's naval forces entered the war when the Strategy for the Development of Ukraine's Naval Forces until 2035, adopted in 2018, was just beginning to be implemented, i.e. during a transitional period. A key part of this strategy included the creation of so-called Mosquito capabilities, i.e. a fleet of small, fast and highly manoeuvrable manned combat platforms. Let me take this opportunity to access marineforum digital+ You are already...

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Double change in the Indo-Pacific Association

Double change in the Indo-Pacific Association

Gepostet von | 15 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

Crew F125 "Charlie" takes over from "Echo" on the Baden - Württemberg No sooner had the Day of German Unity been celebrated than the crews "Echo" and "Charlie" had six intensive days of handover ahead of them. On 9 October, after four months and over 22,500 nautical miles, the commander of the "Echos", as the men and women of the crew to be relieved are called in naval language, frigate captain Sascha Huth, handed over the frigate "Baden-Württemberg" to frigate captain Bogislav von Puttkamer, the commander of the "Charlies". Behind the ship and crew lies a Pacific crossing from east to west, from San Diego to Singapore, including two intensive manoeuvres...

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