Russia, China get ‘target practice’ in Baltic
By Jakub Janda and James Corera*
Weak-kneed responses to attacks on Baltic cables risk allowing the Russia-China axis to conduct free target practice against NATO...
ADV Reliant on a Pacific mission
Australia’s Pacific Support Vessel Australian Defence Vessel (ADV) Reliant has departed Brisbane on its first deployment of 2025. Further enhancing Australia’s partnership with the...
Finland seizes suspect Russian oil ship
Authorities from Finland have seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power...
US pilots shot down by friendly fire
Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the U.S military said, marking the...
Big Chinese Arctic oil find
The Chinese rig Cosl Prospector has discovered up to 52 million barrels of oil in an appraisal well in Norwegian Arctic waters, the Barents...
UK Defence chief: stiffening resolve
This is the text of the annual RUSI lecture given by UK Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin this month:
Perhaps unsurprisingly after...
Sun setting on RN’s Mid-East presence
Until recently, the RN maintained a meaningful force of at least 6 ships based in Bahrain. For a variety of reasons, this force may...
Russia’s new LNG vessel
In a significant step to expand Russia’s domestic shipbuilding portfolio the Zvezda shipyard has completed work on its first LNG vessel. Ice-capable gas carrier...
Pentagon update on the Chinese military
This month (December 2024) the Pentagon released its 2024 Annual Report on Chinese Military and Security Developments Pentagon Annual Report on Chinese Military and...
Naval competition in the Indian Ocean
The South Asian Voices (SAV) editorial team collaborated with the Strategic Learning team on a wide-ranging SAV Q&A that explores the importance of naval...