Bomb damage in Plymouth following a raid in April 1941.
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Recent events in Keyham, Plymouth, are a reminder that every year unexploded second world war-era ordinance is still found in British cities.
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The UK government needs to define its goals and the scope of its involvement in a campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Military personnel walk on the tarmac at Canadian Forces Base Trenton.
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In a world where co-operation has given way to competition and conflict, how will Canada approach the prospect of war?
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The Home Office wants the navy to take charge of migrant crossings, but there’s not much value they can add.
Pride of the fleet: the submarine, HMS Triumph, in 1940 after being rebuilt.
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It took nearly two years for the Royal Navy to tell the story of the heroic voyage of the crippled submarine HMS Triumph.
HMS Defender: 21st-century British sea power.
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The Royal Navy is central to the government’s vision of ‘Global Britain’.
HMS Defender: at the centre of an international maritime dispute.
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Nothing suggests that HMS Defender’s passage was anything but continuous and expeditious. But the UK should avoid relying on Ukrainian “permission” as a justification.
This is not the first time that sexual harassment and abuse in the UK Armed Forces has been the subject of inquiry.
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Previous enquiries into inappropriate behaviour have painted a concerning picture.
The capture of a slave ship by the Royal Navy in 1859, from which 847 enslaved Africans were released.
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Britain’s Royal Navy embarked on a huge anti-slavery campaign, but those ‘rescued’ didn’t always feel the benefits.
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Urgent intervention is needed to secure H&W – and other strategic UK industrial assets – before key skills and capacity are irretrievably lost.
Oromo children saved from slavery.
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Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
A Helmandi policewoman is trained to load and fire a weapon in 2009.
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Successful counterinsurgency depends on winning the hearts and minds of men and women.
Everything to everyone – or is the F-35 a big expense for not much benefit?
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The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.
Nelson had a complicated view of Europe.
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Over 200 years ago, Britain found itself isolated from Europe and looking elsewhere for trade. Remind you of anything?
HMS Terror. Engraving by George Back.
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168 years on, experts are finally uncovering the secrets of the Royal Navy’s tragic expedition to the Northwest Passage.
Britain’s nuclear deterrent is attached to four Vanguard-class submarines.
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Splits over Trident can create stalemate between the UK’s forces, but the public needs to debate renewing the deterrent before time runs out.
Made in the UK: nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard and Type 45 frigate HMS Dragon.
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The controversy over the BAE Systems decision on warship building has been dominated by myth, emotion and pleading. Arguments are raging about English versus Scottish jobs, about shipbuilding as a key…
Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the arms trade.
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The announcement that defence company BAE Systems is to cut 1,775 jobs at its naval warship yards in Portsmouth and in Scotland will come as a huge blow to those workers, their families and their local…