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News Digest from the November & December 2014 editions

NORWAY TO TOUGHEN UP DEFENCES AGAINST RUSSIA Norwegian defence minister, Ine Eriksen Soreide has ordered a thorough evaluation of her nation’s military’s capabilities. She said European insecurity had grown following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea - the first time a European state had seized the territory of another since WW2 - and Moscow’s ongoing intervention in eastern Ukraine. The last time there was a re-evaluation of the Norwegian national ...

News Digest from the October and November 2014 editions

10 October, 2014

US NAVY SPEARHEADS SYRIAN STRIKES American naval forces remained at the forefront of the action as two warships launching cruise missiles joined carrier-based jets in conducting strikes against terrorist ...

News Digest from the September 2014 Edition

01 September, 2014

STRIKE CARRIER FOR RAN? The Australian Government has acknowledged that it is considering the acquisition of a number of F-35B Lightning II strike jets having already committed to ...

News Digest from the May 2014 Edition

25 April, 2014

TOKYO ORDERS MARINE CORPS TO BE ESTABLISHED Japan intends to establish a 3,000-strong rapid amphibious assault force modelled on the US Marine Corps (USMC). The force will be equipped ...

Crimea & Ukraine – FLASH NEWS

05 March, 2014

UKRAINIAN NAVY FLAGSHIP HEADS HOME And Proves She did not Defect to Pro-Russia Faction Report and photographs by Special Correspondent Cem Devrim Yaylali, Istanbul The flagship of ...

News Digest from the February 2014 Edition

12 February, 2014

USN CRUISER IN NEAR MISS WITH CHINESE WARSHIP A US Navy guided-missile cruiser was forced to take evasive action to avoid a collision with a Chinese naval vessel in ...

News Digest from January 2014 issue

20 December, 2013

IRAN INCREASES UNDERSEA WARFARE CAPABILITY The Iranians appear to have launched a new class of submarine. Satellite imagery showed a 40m long submarine tied up at the Bastanu Shipyard ...