Should UK go after sanctioned tankers?
Earlier this month, the United States (US) seized the Marinera, a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic. Formerly sailing as the Bella 1...
Trump battleship an easier target: China
U.S. President Donald Trump calls the vessel a new class of “battleship” graced by his own name, but China just calls the U.S. Navy’s...
Greater uncrewed role for US Navy
The U.S. Navy is moving swiftly to integrate and deploy unmanned surface vessels, with three USV divisions slated to be created this month (January...
SSN-AUKUS to collapse: UK admiral
Plans to develop a new class of nuclear-powered submarine for Australia and the United Kingdom under the AUKUS pact are likely to collapse because...
Inspect for warfighting over rust
By Spike Dearing*
From the moment we leave our homeports, the ships of 7thFleet live under the shadow of Chinese weapons and in the ever-present...
US ships: massive workforce needed
To construct the Navy’s planned Golden Fleet, U.S. naval shipbuilders must hire a quarter million people over the next decade, Secretary of the Navy...
A mariners-first principle
Mariners first: rebuilding Australia’s navy for war at sea
By Jennifer Parker*
The Royal Australian Navy’s greatest challenge isn’t introducing nuclear submarines and considerably expanding the...
SE Asia needs coast guard unity
By Harshit Prajapati*
Southeast Asian states need their coast guards to cooperate if they are to withstand and counter Chinese aggression, especially as US uninterest...
American supercarrier ‘opens fire’ in Pacific
Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has carried out live-fire exercises in the South China Sea as part of routine operations by the carrier strike...
How the US took a shadow-fleet oil tanker
By Tom Sharpe*
Last week, in the distant waters of the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, the US Coast Guard cutter Munro seized the oil tanker now known...