Welcome to The Broadside!
Introducing the new home for maritime thought
Welcome to The Broadside, the new home for the best maritime thinking in the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond! Want to write for us? Read on.
We at the Council on Geostrategy have a strong connection to the maritime, from our hosting of the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference to the establishment of our Sea Power Laboratory, in close partnership with the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre.
We wanted to create a place for fresh thinking on all things naval and maritime, where contributors from far and wide can share their novel ideas and analysis. Hence, The Broadside was born.
Britain has an enormous amount of maritime talent, but there hasn’t been a dedicated think tank outlet for their ideas – a central hub for the very best from across the sector. That is what we want The Broadside to be – your one-stop source for everything to do with the Royal Navy, the British maritime sector and the big sea power issues facing the UK. We also want to delve back into history for lessons to learn for today, bringing the wisdom of the past into the problems of the present and future.
But it doesn’t end at Britain’s borders – our allies and partners are vital, particularly in an ever more uncertain world. Sharing ideas, best practices, and fresh thinking is the only way we can all work together to defend our nations and our values. The Broadside will also be the home of writing from established experts and newer voices from Europe, the Americas, the Indo-Pacific, Africa – wherever there is someone with something important to say about the maritime world.
This week, we are starting off strong with three exceptional articles. Charlotte Kleberg brings us new ideas for strengthening the relationship between the Royal Navy and the commercial shipping sector; Andy Young shows us the importance of risk, resilience and reconstitution when preparing for peer warfare; and Matthew Palmer explores the benefits of procuring fast attack craft for Royal Navy littoral operations. Make sure you subscribe to The Broadside to get these excellent pieces straight into your inbox!
As Editor of The Broadside, I am excited to bring my editorial experience and naval nerdery to bear in publishing the best of the maritime. I am also delighted to be working closely with Dr Kevin Rowlands as Associate Editor, whose expertise will be invaluable in crafting this new project. The Broadside will also be the new home of my regular maritime newsletter, ‘The Signal’, and a selection of exciting content from the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre.
All hands on deck! If you have a pitch or a submission of 800-1,400 words on a maritime topic, get in touch with me here and tell me more.
Dr Emma Salisbury is Editor of The Broadside and Sea Power Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
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I hope you’ll discuss how the UK can recover from what appears to be a whole nation sailing directly into Charybdis. How will it fund rebuilding its navy and find the sailor to crew its ships given it other commitments.
A geopolitics hobbyist from Germany here, I am very interested in the future of this Substack. The Royal Navy and British Naval Power has been a key part of European and Global History. Sadly it isn’t quite what it once was/should be when looking at all the threats Europe is facing again.
Greetings.