No. 239 December 2014

December 2014

Front cover

Contents

  • SUB HUNT IN THE BALTIC
  • LIBYA’S MARITIME ANARCHY
  • RN’s EBOLA MISSION
  • IRELAND’S NEW WARSHIP
  • PERU’S LATEST SIFOREX
  • RUSSIA & AMERICA’S SECRET PARTNERSHIP
  • LIBYA’S MARITIME ANARCHY

LibyaAnarchy

LIBYA’S MARITIME ANARCHY

We examine how rampant instability ashore in Libya is having an effect on maritime security in the Mediterranean Sea. It is also enabling an outflow of desperate people taking huge risks to find a new life in Europe among whom terrorists could be hiding.

Photo: Italian Navy.

 

EbolaMission

RN’s EBOLA MISSION

We report on how a maid of all works naval vessel that has seen service from Desert Storm to the war torn Balkans and the Arab Spring, is now involved in the fight against a killer disease threatening to run rampant across the globe.

Photo: Royal Navy/UK MoD.

 

IrishWarship

IRELAND’S NEW WARSHIP

Phil Rood profiles a new warship type that represents a quantum leap in capability for one of Europe’s smaller navies.

Photo: Irish Navy.

 

SIFOREX PIC

PERU’S LATEST SIFOREX

Special Correspondent Guy Toremans reports on this year’s Silent Force Exercise (SIFOREX) between the Peruvian Navy and US Navy.

Photo: Guy Toremans.

 

SECRET PARTNERSHIP

RUSSIA & AMERICA’S SECRET PARTNERSHIP

Using newly released material, Dr Dave Sloggett examines how the Russians and Americans must have collaborated behind the scenes, despite tensions over the Ukraine and elsewhere, to rid Syria of chemical weapons.

Photo: US DoD.

 

SubHuntPic

SUB HUNT IN THE BALTIC

Chief Analyst Usman Ansari reports on an extraordinary episode that saw Sweden conducting an intensive, and ultimately futile, search for a foreign submarine suspected of intruding deep into its waters.

Photo: Swedish Defence Ministry.