Hormuz: Merchant ships could go uncrewed
Reportedly, approximately 20,000 seafarers on board some 2,000 ships, including tankers, bulk carriers, cargo ships, and cruise ships, were stranded in the Persian Gulf...
US warships to aid Venezuela after quake
Two U.S. warships, the USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and the littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS-15), have been dispatched to Venezuela following the nation’s...
Iran war’s lesson for Australia
By David Kilcullen*
Iran has emerged undefeated after nearly four months of war against a nuclear-armed regional rival (Israel) and the world’s most powerful military...
India’s three new ships
The Indian Navy commissioned the Nilgiri-class frigate INS Dunagiri, Survey Vessel (Large) INS Sanshodhak and ASW Shallow Water Craft INS Agray on June 21,...
Nuclear subs: learning from South Korea
By Euan Graham*
Australia and South Korea are both acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines, a parallel step-change in their conventional deterrent capability. Though their discrete pathways...
AUKUS: staying in elite submarine group
AUKUS Pillar One will keep Australia in a shrinking group of countries operating submarines in coming decades, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles told the...
China’s submarine-building dominance
By H I Sutton*
More countries are building and operating submarines today than at any point in modern history. Yet amid this global expansion, China...
Canada and Australia’s different submarine paths
By John Harvey*
Canada and Australia are natural comparators: sparsely populated, resource-rich, English-speaking Westminster democracies on continent-sized landmasses, with maritime approaches out of all proportion...
UK strike group under NATO command in Arctic
The United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group, led by HMS Prince of Wales, is operating under NATO command in support of the alliance’s enhanced Vigilance...
Making public case for naval strategy
Today the US may have the political conditions necessary to build a larger Navy, but it lacks a publicly articulated maritime strategy, argues naval...