From the ANI Archive: Navigating the Fly River
The reprinting of old articles published in the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, which was part of the commemorative activities for the ANI’s...
ANI at 50: The History of the ANI
The last ‘ANI at 50’ in 2025 has a reprint of a short history of the ANI that was published earlier this year in...
ANI at 50: Task Group command
In 2002 in successive editions of the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute there were articles about command and sea. The first on ship...
ANI at 50: Sea Command
In 2002 in successive editions of the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute there were articles about sea command. The first, appearing in the...
ANI at 50: Network Centric Warfare
The ANI has covered new warfighting concepts in its various publications during its 50 years. A notable one was network centric warfare (NCW), also...
ANI at 50: Shiphandling Corner Returns
After a hiatus of a couple of years the popular ‘Shiphanding Corner’ returned in the Spring 2001 edition of the Journal of the Australian...
ANI at 50: We Must Study Naval History
The close association between history, strategy and the profession of arms is a recurrent theme in the pages of the Journal of the Australian...
ANI at 50: Medium Power Navies in the 21st Century
The argument mounted in the just released A Maritime Strategy for Australia that medium powers like Australia must have a balanced fleet is certainly...
ANI at 50: A Transformational Fleet
Over its 50 years the ANI has published international perspectives on Australian naval and maritime affairs. These different perspectives often offer much to consider....
ANI at 50: The Commonwealth Naval Force
In the years between Australia’s Federation in 1901 and the royal proclamation of the title ‘Royal Australian Navy’ in 1911, the nation’s navy was...













