Rebuilding the Ukrainian Navy
Year: 2019

Using the Ukrainian navy as a case study, this chapter explores two related challenges facing many small European navies and one unique Ukrainian challenge. It examines the difficulty for small navies of trying to address, simultaneously, very traditional security challenges and those that might be termed ‘new’ maritime security threats. The chapter explores an enduring challenge facing many small European navies: how to balance commitments against resources in an age of austerity when there is