Marine Corps activates Guam base
The Marine Corps held an activation ceremony last week for its base on Guam, which ultimately will be home to about 5,000 Marines and...
US Coast Guard boosts Pacific fishing effort
As COVID-19 restrictions gradually lift, the Coast Guard this year is making a push to step up engagement in the Pacific islands as it continues efforts...
Maritime security: ASEAN and Japan
By Thư Nguyễn Hoàng Anh*
In a partnership with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that now spans 50 years, Japan has played an important...
US Pacific strategy under scrutiny
By Captain Tuan N. Pham (ret.)*
“As an Indo-Pacific power, the United States has a vital interest in realizing a region that is open, interconnected,...
Bolstering Australian regional defence collaboration
ANI's Saltwater Strategists podcast series.
Title: Strategy, history & geography: The key to bolstering Australian regional defence collaboration?
In the final Saltwater Strategists episode for season...
Global competition and war with China
Dr Jeff Harley*
Amid the global competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, the Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy released in...
Islands’ lawfare on climate change
By Donald R Rothwell*
The call for a global response to the impact of climate change and especially the threats posed by sea-level rise for...
Chinese navy’s South China Sea drills
The Chinese navy has carried out a series of “confrontational drills” in the South China Sea, state media has reported, after a United States...
Ukraine: lessons from Cuban missile crisis
By LtCol Brent Stricker*
“It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such...
Swedish Navy and NATO
With its significant geopolitical, strategic and military changes stemming from Russia’s war against Ukraine, 2022 has the potential to go down in history as...