Growing undersea threats
The way that maritime drones are reshaping naval warfare is becoming clear in the Black Sea. But the extent to which their underwater cousins,...
China opens fifth Antarctic base
When China opened its fifth research station in Antarctica this month, analysts sounded alarm bells about potential security threats on Australia's southern doorstep, the...
Naval lessons from Ukraine after two years
In year two of the Ukraine war, the naval domain continued to be a lower-tier area of conflict — and yet, both sides stepped...
Threats: we must not avoid the ‘China’ word
By Alex Bristow*
Writing in The Australian Financial Review on 5 February (republished with permission by ANI), my former ASPI colleague, Jennifer Parker, put an...
Philippines Navy adjusting to ‘external defence’ posture
The Philippine News Agency reported on 23 February that Commodore Roy Vincent Trinidad, the Philippines Navy's spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea (WPS), stated...
ASPI urges US-China hotlines
Australia should encourage the United States and China to improve their crisis management, including through leader-level “hotlines”, and conduct its own exercises to better...
US Navy seizes Houthi-bound weapons
On15 February the US Navy reported that the US Coast Guard cutter Clarence Sutphin Jr which is forward deployed to the US Central Command...
Danish frigate deployed to the Red Sea
The Danish frigate HDMS Iver Huitfeldt has arrived on station in the Red Sea to join the US-led Operation Prosperity Guardian. The frigate Iver...
Ukraine sinks Russian ship
A big Russian amphibious ship, the Caesar Kunikov, has been sunk off the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine's armed forces, the BBC...
China’s Ukraine lesson: win quickly
China has closely watched the nearly two years of war in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but rather than concluding a similar course of action...