RT report T1 Gibraltar – Military Fortress or City or Both? A1 Gómez O'Brien, Charles AB Looking at Gibraltar today, its commercial port, tourism, finance centreand its very active political class, one could easily forget just how influential,if not determinative, British military interests are. Therefore, I would like tohighlight just how much Gibraltar remains a military base, and how this hashistorically interfaced with civilian and commercial interests.So the question today is whether Gibraltar is a Monaco or a Rota, or anunusual combination of both. In times of peace, civilian and commercialinterests have prevailed, but, for some years now Anglo-American policy hassuggested that defence is coming to the forefront worldwide. In January 2024the drums of war were banging louder not just in Ukraine and Israel but alsoin the Red Sea, the Baltic, and the South China Sea PB Editorial Uca SN 2444-7382 YR 2023 FD 2023 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32008 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32008 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 07-nov-2026