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...
Building maritime capacity in polar regions
By Aaron Delano-Johnson and Myles McCarthy*
Sporting the distinctive racing stripe worn by many of the globe’s coast guards, the world’s newest polar-capable research vessel...
China’s new Latin American beachhead
By Selwyn Parker*
China should be extremely grateful to the Peruvian government of Dina Boluarte. Courtesy of her Congress, which rewrote the rules of foreign...
Arctic warning from Russian admiral
The Arctic has moved from cooperation and interaction to the opposite, a region of possible future conflict, said Russia’s navy chief Aleksandr Moiseev, the...
Deindustrialisation a threat to Australia
By Joseph Zeller*
Australia needs strategic reindustrialisation. The days of secure supply chains and geopolitical stability have begun to erode, and Australia is without a...
US destroyers foil Houthi attacks
Between 9-10 December the destroyers USS Stockdale and USS O’Kane successfully defeated a range of Houthi launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden....