The Royal and Russian Navies: Cooperation, competition and confrontation (Russian Strategy and Power)

by David Fields and Robert Avery

Book Overview

Before the political rupture between Russia and the West, resulting from Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there was a complex programme of military cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy. Since 1988, the Royal Navy, first with the Soviet Navy and then the Russian Federation Navy, developed a close working relationship, signing a Memorandum of Understanding in 1998 on naval cooperation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526184591
• ISBN13: 9781526184597
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages