Quad’s role in west Indian Ocean
By Jennifer Parker*
Australia’s view of the Indo-Pacific generally stops at Sri Lanka and the southern tip of India. But this regional conceptualisation leaves out...
NZ’s new AUKUS links
New Zealand took a step closer to participating in the trilateral AUKUS security arrangement today, announcing that it will examine “opportunities” related to the...
Close call for USS Gravely
A Houthi anti-ship missile got within a nautical mile of the Navy destroyer Gravely on Tuesday, and the warship used its Phalanx Close-In Weapons...
Time for Pacific maritime security program
By Shaun Cameron*
Southeast Asia’s maritime environment faces threats from piracy, slavery, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. A maritime security program tailored for...
USS Finn irks China with Taiwan Strait sail
China has accused the United States of abusing international law with its military maneuvers in the western Pacific, one day after a Navy warship...
Elusive stability in China relationship
By Justin Bassi*
This month’s Chinese embassy press conference was a further effort to corral Australia into compliance and compromise with Beijing’s views. Remarks by...
The Red Sea and naval policy drift
By Richard Menhinick*
Last year I wrote the maritime opinion piece on the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) for the WA Defence Review 2022–23 annual issue....
US Navy shoots down Houthi missiles
The Houthis and the U.S. continued to trade strikes on Wednesday, with the U.S. taking out two anti-ship missiles early Wednesday morning local time,...
US seizes Iran-supplied missile parts
US Central Command revealed 16 January 2024 that for the first time since Yemen-based Houthi began attacks on ships in the Red Sea in...
Red Sea tension continues to mount
U.S. forces in the Middle East struck two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were on the ground but prepared to launch toward the Red Sea,...