China’s Pacific ‘friendship’ has strategic aim
By Anne-Marie Brady*
In the Xi Jinping era, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (commonly known as the Friendship Association, or Youxie)...
Solomons can be won back
By Peter Jennings*
China’s treaty on security cooperation with Solomon Islands has two key purposes. First, it helps to extend the military reach of the...
Guam sub force increased to five
The US Navy now has five submarines homeported in Guam — up from two the service had based there as of November 2021, the...
Backlog in US weapons to Taiwan
Pandemic-related acquisition issues have sparked a backlog in the U.S. delivering $14.2 billion worth of military equipment to Taiwan that the island has purchased...
Indian-Australian naval talks
The fourteenth IN-RAN Navy to Navy Staff Talks were held from 11-13 April in New Delhi. The meeting was co-chaired by Rear Admiral Chris...
Djibouti shows artful way of Solomons deal
By Michael Shoebridge*
Why shouldn’t we believe Beijing’s claims that its security agreement with Honiara won’t result in a base or place to operate its...
Ukraine: Military and Intelligence Aspects
A new report to the US Congress on the war in Ukraine has been released.
Summary:
Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022 marked...
Ukraine: anti-access-denial strategy
By Jason Lancaster*
Russian forces crossed the border into Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Since then, these forces have been slowly advancing;1 yet there has been...
Reconsidering Russian maritime warfare
By Michael Petersen*
How might Russian maritime forces be brought to bear against the United States and its allies? This question is particularly critical as...
Securing Asia’s sub-sea network
More than 1 million kilometers of submarine cables traversing the ocean floor, each about as wide as a garden hose, transmit up to 99...