The Black Sea as the stage of tension between Russia and the United Kingdom

The recent naval incident in which the Russian authorities claim that their forces fired warning shots at a British destroyer in the Black Sea, stems from the effects of the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Moscow (not recognized by the West) . If you want to understand more about how Russia uses the Black […]

RECOMMENDED | Integrated Review: Foreign perspectives

In March, the United Kingdom (UK) published the Integrated Review – entitled ‘Global Britain in a competitive age’ – setting the tone and course for British strategic policy for the next decade. Britain’s World has covered the publication of the review from a range of perspectives, including the Euro-Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, and Polar dimensions. Today we […]

Chinese advances in Chile

For more than twenty years, successive Chilean governments, on both the right and the left, have sought to integrate their country, with its back to the Andes mountains, into the Pacific rim’s flourishing economy. Chile has already tied itself to Asia and other parts of the world through Latin America’s most extensive web of free trade […]

Record Drug Seizure Caps Off Difficult Year for Chile

A record drug bust by Chilean armed forces showed that growing public concern about increased drug trafficking in the country is more than justified. In late November, the Navy intercepted a Peruvian boat sailing in Chilean waters off the northern Tarapacá Region, carrying 532 kilograms of cocaine. More than half a ton of cocaine was confiscated during the operation, a […]

Global Britain becomes a reality

For several years, since the British people’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016, the United Kingdom has appeared lost. True, the British Armed Forces have been deployed around the world over that time, from the frigid forests of Estonia to the warm waters of the South China Sea. But, during the political hullabaloo […]

Chilean Navy and Royal Navy: Past, Present and Future

The question is the future of a relationship that is basically kept alive and nurtured by the navies of two like-minded liberal democracies, but have no common problems to solve, or interests other than their desire for a rules-based world order and a common standing on issues such as global warming and the impacts of […]

Chile facing the Indo-Pacific

Juan Pablo Toro V. In different international environments, it is increasingly common to hear or use the term “Indo-Pacific” instead of “Asia-Pacific”, a designation of economic origin that was coined in the 1990s. As a concept, it has already been adopted in official documents and administrative entities in countries such as the United States and […]

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London interviews John Griffiths on his “Western Way of War” podcast.

Peter Roberts, director of the Military Sciences program at RUSI, interviewed John Griffiths Spielman, head of AthenaLab’s Security and Defense studies, on August 10 of this year, as part of a program on the “Western Form of War”. ”, in which academics, politicians and members of the British and European Armed Forces have participated, such […]

When Geopolitics Meets Technologies: Space Development and Changes on Traditional Power’s Balance

Space Development in the South America Region South America as a geographical region and the individual nations, have traditionally been exploited by global powers because of their global position and abundant natural resources. However, South America is also challenged because it has not been able to develop a regional governance structure due to difficulties with […]

The South Pacific Strategic Alliance

Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis Recently the Chilean Navy took control of the former HMAS “Melbourne” and HMAS “Newcastle” and renamed them “Capitán Prat” and “Almirante Latorre”, replacing the type L class frigates that had the same names and that Chile had bought from the Royal Netherlands Navy in 2005 and that were decommissioned in Talcahuano at […]