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'WARSHIPS IFR'S GUIDE TO THE ROYAL NAVY 2008'

COMMENTARY SPECIAL

RUSSIA'S GEORGIAN BLITZKRIEG WILL THE WEST WAKE UP?

Words uttered by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he returned from Munich with a shameful agreement which gave the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia - homeland to ethnic Germans - to Hitler’s Germany, in September 1938.

RUSSIAN ON THE RAMPAGE?

Via a series of articles following Russia’s invasion and occupation of parts of Georgia we look at the implications from both a naval and geo-political point of view.

Pictured: The Russian Navy carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which was this summer ordered to the Mediterranean to face-off NATO naval forces following the East-West split caused by the war in Georgia.

SPECIAL SECTION

State of the US NAVY 2007

Part One of a profile on where the US Navy stands as we head out of 2007 and into the uncertainties of 2008. This instalment includes:

ROYAL NAVY COMMENTARY

Odin's Eye Commentary Special

There is nothing worse than someone who talks the talk but cannot walk the walk, as the late lamented Duke Wayne might have said, in one of his silver screen adventures.

REPORT FROM THE GULF

BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN FRIGATES MENACED

IRANIAN Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy speedboats menaced the British warship HMS Chatham in July, as weapons tests ordered by the Tehran regime to deter strikes on its nuclear weapons facilities raised tension in the Gulf.

State of the US Navy 07