David Mugridge

My most recent ‘road to Damascus’ experience struck me as I waded through knee-high piles of research material in my office - all part of an on-going search for the raison d'ëtre of So...

Policy is the player The EU’s response (Operation ATALANTA) to Somali Piracy under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), once hailed as progressive, is now facing increasing cri...

The coalition government’s recent public disclosure that they were in consultation with the Canadians over joint warship design has arrested a potential deal which could have created hundreds...

Critical Infrastructure (CI), is by definition, critical to a nation’s economic and social fabric. Those sectors which define its influence encapsulate every aspect of modern life and continue...

"Cheap for us and nasty for the Germans"- Churchill 1940 Though Churchill perhaps did not intend the above to apply to the current state of the British Royal Navy, this author’s co-optin...

It is probably a futile exercise to add to the invective that has followed the publication of David Cameron’s much-heralded and financially-driven SDSR. However, many in the broader defence c...

While media headlines abound and the mass ongoing conventional naval campaign against Somalia’s maritime piracy has dominated the minds of the world’s maritime security experts, security...

In the foggy early summer waters of the Eastern Seaboard off North America, the Royal Navy has staked its claim for ASW (anti-submarine warfare) primacy among its NATO allies. In a recent Canadian...

(This article represents a speculative interpretation on an alternative shape of the Canadian Navy in 2030, based purely on contemporary security trends and the author’s analysis. It in no way r...