War at sea

The sinking of the Iranian frigate Dena in the Indian Ocean on 4 March by the United States Navy’s Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charlotte is a blunt reminder that maritime war does not respect the tidy geographic boundaries delineated on paper in policy frameworks.

The fate of Russia’s navy does not invalidate ours

Ukraine’s sinking of several Russian warships is an impressive achievement, but is part of a long tradition of asymmetric naval warfare and does not render surface combatants obsolete.