A tribute to the defenders of our seas, democracy and our future

It bothers me that Sri Lankans have little opportunity to get to fully appreciate the level of growth and sophistication achieved by the defenders of our high seas, who combat the world's most prolific terrorists, the tamil-tigers.

Though I do not believe in the blame game, responsibility for failing to raise the national awareness and pride in our armed services must fall fair and square on all the the service chiefs until now. This is not to say they have not done a great job of building up the forces; they have. They have dismally failed to communicate the fact. It is ironic that most of the information found herein had to be sourced from external websites and blogs due to the absence of such information on the official SL Navy website, www.navy.lk.

This blog is an attempt to create at least some awareness in our people, of the capabilities of our naval forces and the assets at their disposal in the daily struggles and deadly challenges they face in defending our nation from those who seek to destroy it.