From the ANI Archive: Rear Admiral Nigel Coates remembered
Rear Admiral Nigel Coates was one of the most admired and capable officers of his generation. Many people hoped Nigel would one day lead...
From the ANI Archive: Communications into the Future
Naval communications has been an area of dramatic changes through the life of the ANI and articles have frequently appeared on the vital aspect...
From the ANI Archives: The RAN Needs SSNs
Continuing the submarine theme from the last week’s ‘From the ANI Archives’, Headmark 135, published in March 2010, an article by ‘Girgis’ advocating that...
From the ANI Archives: Collins case
In Headmark 133 published in 2009, the then Captain Peter Scott wrote about the key considerations to be taken into account when thinking about...
From the ANI Archives: HMS Amethyst and Simon the cat
A less known aspect of the ‘Amethyst incident’ on the Yangtze in 1949 was that it could well have been the ‘Shoalhaven Incident’. Lieutenant...
From the ANI Archives: Case study in doctrinal innovation
As witnessed in the war in Ukraine the adoption of novel technologies can have a profound impact on the conduct of war and adoption...
From the ANI archive: The FFG upgrade
The mid-life modernisation of surface combatants has been a vexed issue over the history of the RAN. When to do it? How comprehensive? Is...
From the ANI Archives: The Surface Warship as Force Multiplier
What do strategic trends in the early 21st century Asia-Pacific region mean for Australia’s future naval operational and force structure requirements? A naval historian...
From the ANI Archives: The Sea is a Highway, not a Barrier
Since its inception the ANI has allowed contributors to its journal to write under a pseudonym if they chose. Sometimes it was because the...
From the ANI Archive: 1920s RAN pilot training
Within the pages of the Headmark journal are historical articles about little covered areas of the RAN’s history. A fine example of this is...