Illegal fishing threatens the livelihoods of many countries in Africa and South America. International cooperation and regional solutions form the basis for an effective fight against it. Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is increasingly jeopardising the marine resources of coastal states in developing countries. While global attention is often focussed...
The transit of a Russian submarine from the Mediterranean took an unusually long time. It turned into a communications drama for no good reason. The redeployment of the Russian submarine NOWOROSSIJSK from the Mediterranean in October 2025 attracted unusual attention in the media, security policy circles and political commentary. According to everything that optical reconnaissance, Russian shipyard signals and movement data...
At the beginning of 2026, the Bundestag decided to take the first step towards reactivating compulsory military service. Once again, buzzwords were more important than arguments in the political debate. It was cannon fodder versus war fitness. It wasn't just the opponents of compulsory military service who were using manslaughter arguments, the other side didn't argue much more differentiated either. After the student demonstrations, all sweeping judgements were...
New challenges await the German Navy in the far north. Even China is now emphasising its interests in the region. While 50 per cent of the Arctic clearly belongs to Russia, China also justifies its claims in the Arctic by claiming to be a "state close to the Arctic". The northernmost city in China is Mohe in the...
Germany's maritime dependence. The deputy inspector and commander of the fleet did not hand over a printed report to the German Maritime Institute at the end of the Maritime Convention, but a 5 x 5 centimetre QR code. That is modern, but not yet progress. The Department of Naval Shipping Management under the leadership of Frigate Captain Steffen...
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