China-Philippines showdown looms over islands
As leaders across Asia descend on Jakarta for the annual ASEAN and East Asia summits this week, one regional flashpoint is looming large, the...
Remembering Vice Admiral Robert Walls AO RAN (Retired)
By John Mortimer and John Perryman
On 28 August 2023 Vice Admiral Robert Andrew Kevin Walls passed away after a long illness. He was an...
Report on US Navy force structure and shipbuilding plans
On 31 August the US Congressional Research Service released a 54 page report on the US Navy’s Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans.
The report covers...
HMAS Waller conducts Exercise with TNI-AL
On 31 August the submarine HMAS Waller conducted a passage exercise with the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) in waters near Bali. The TNI-AL warships taking...
China adds new land and sea with new map
Waves of anger spread across the South China Sea and India this week, following China’s publication of a new official map renewing its illegal...
China adds land and sea to new map
Waves of anger spread across the South China Sea and India this week, following China’s publication of a new official map renewing its illegal...
Australia-Philippines disaster exercise
The Philippines is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Its islands are frequently impacted by natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and typhoons.
As the...
Exercise Eagle Indopura
On 27 August the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) completed the 27th edition of Exercise Eagle Indopura (XEI)....
China-Thailand Exercise Blue Strike-2023
A Peoples liberation Army- Navy (PLA-N) task group arrived in the Thai port of Sattahip prior to the commencement of the combined Exercise Blue...
Keys to anti-submarine warfare
By Jennifer Parker*
On the night of 31 May 1942, my grandfather was a young boy hiding under the kitchen table as Sydney went into...