The diplomat Boris Ruge (61), currently Deputy Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), is to replace his German colleague Bettina Cadenbach and become NATO Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy. Profil Ruge joined the Foreign Service in 1989. Before joining the MSC, he was Commissioner for the Middle East and North Africa...
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.19.5" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" sticky_enabled="0"] With the title "Rediscovered - the North Flank Area", the German Maritime Institute (DMI) once again attracted experts, interested parties and trade visitors to the Hotel Atlantic in Wilhelmshaven this year. For the ninth...
According to media reports from the beginning of May, new satellite images from a Washington-based think tank show that China has resumed construction of its fifth Antarctic research station after a break of around five years. According to Chinese sources, the aim is to open up new shipping routes and expand its own research in the Antarctic. However, Western governments are concerned about the current...
For a good two weeks now, NATO navies have been accompanying a Russian formation on its way from the Mediterranean around Western Europe to the harbours and shipyards of the Baltic Fleet. The small group is led by the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" (494), the type ship of the three combat units built for the Black Sea Fleet - intended...
From press releases of the German Armed Forces and the Naval Command Rostock Naval Command, 28 April 2023 Order of the day at the end of the military evacuation operation Sudan On 14 April, bloody unrest broke out in Sudan. The long-simmering conflict within the security apparatus is increasingly plunging Africa's third-largest country by area into chaos. It quickly became clear that the country...
In anticipation of our "marineforum" magazine, which will be published in a few days' time, here is an article that was written three weeks ago but was reserved for the print edition. After the 85-year-old US investment journalist Seymour Hersh tried to make everyone believe in February 2023 with unprovable strands of causality that the USA was a...
Maya von Holdt becomes Managing Director of Plath Corporation GmbH Maya von Holdt has been appointed Managing Director of Plath Corporation GmbH with effect from 1 April 2023 and will lead the company together with Nico Scharfe, Michael Kalt and Stefan Efftinge. As a member of the Executive Board and Managing Director, she is responsible for Corporate Development....
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.19.5" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" sticky_enabled="0"] It seemed a long time ago: the last time the Maritime Capital Forum (MHF) had invited people before the pandemic. Now the time had come again: MPs, their staff and the political groups involved, such as the...
Once again, the German Naval Academy of the German Naval Association hosted a breakfast, traditionally at the Hopfinger Bräu Berlin. While the barriers from the previous day's state visit by the British king were being cleared away next door in front of the Brandenburg Gate, the maritime community of parliamentarians, defence, the German Armed Forces and maritime experts gathered for scrambled eggs....
The TARGET IMAGE for the MARINE from 2035 - energetic entry into unmanned systems and artificial intelligence The inspector of the German Navy, Vice Admiral Jan Kaack, published his goals for the coming decade. Without many more words or interpretations - you can download the accompanying brochure here. To the download There were...
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