Royal Navy
Amateurish and implausible: BBC1's Vigil reviewed
Tense, claustrophobic, gripping, thrilling, realistic: just some of the adjectives no one is using to describe BBC1’s Sunday night submarine…
A very British coup: SBS – Silent Warriors reviewed
The vast majority of the British public, and even military historians, have never heard of them. COPPists — a combination…
HMS Defender: What's behind the Navy's Russian incident?
Assuming that reports are accurate, the world has just witnessed the most serious escalation between the UK and Russia since the…
How a small Mediterranean island determined the outcome of the second world war
If you can tell the difference between Jack Hawkins and John Mills, and between a Stuka and a Sten gun,…
Life on board a warship in our much-reduced Royal Navy
Life on board a warship in the era of defence cuts
Civilisation’s watery superhighway
The clue is in the title: this is not about the blue-grey-green wet stuff that covers 70 per cent of…