2011 in review: Global naval power shifts with rising tides in the East

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For the second instalment of Defence Dateline Group's three-part review of 2011, Robert Knapp explores the events that took place this year and how they altered the naval power status quo. 2011 has been a year of contrasting fortunes for the world’s navies. There has been the increasingly damaging nature of shrinking defence budgets for European navies - the key examples being the UK, Italy and Greece. Meanwhile in South-East Asia, as has been previously discussed by Defence Dateline,...

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