AUKUS: naysayers and realists
Since Australia, the United States and Britain announced details of the plan for Australia to acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines almost 18 months...
Boost defence: IPA and ASPI research
“Australia is facing its most challenging security environment since the Second World War, yet the country is dramatically underprepared for the possibility of conflict...
Update on US Navy Ballistic Missile Defence
On 6 August the US Congressional research Service released a 37 page report Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for...
HMAS Melville decommissions
The hydrographic ship HMAS Melville decommissioned in a ceremony at Trinity Wharf in Cairns on 8 August. In her 24 years of service, Melville...
Four nations in Maritime Cooperative Activity
Between 7-8 August maritime units of Australia, Canada, the Philippines, and the United States conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) within the Armed Forces...
Ghost Shark to be accelerated
The Australian Government is accelerating production of the Ghost Shark program to provide the ADF with the cutting-edge capabilities in a shorter timeframe. The...
China conducts naval exercise in East Africa
Warships from the Peoples Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) has conducted Exercise Peace Unity 2024 with the defence forces of Mozambique and Tanzania between 6-8 August....
Getting better value from AUKUS SSNs
By Harlan Ullman*
The 1972 movie The Candidate is a good metaphor for the current state of AUKUS, the tri-nation consortium for supplying Australia with...
Keep foreign hands off Austal
By Chris Douglas*
It isn’t clear whether Hanwha Ocean is still interested in buying Australian shipbuilder Austal, but the government should oppose such an acquisition...
Gaza: a bridge way too far
When President Joe Biden announced the mission to build a humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza this March, he framed it as a...