Biden warned on weapons-grade uranium
There is growing pressure on the new Aukus partners to scrap plans to use weapons-grade uranium on submarines, the Guardian reports.
A group of former...
In defence of AUKUS
By Oriana Skylar Mastro and Zack Cooper*
When Barack Obama announced the rebalance to Asia in 2011, he also revealed the rotational deployment of US...
US ‘sleepwalking’ to war with China
By Joseph S. Nye Jr*
As US President Joe Biden’s administration implements its strategy of great-power competition with China, analysts seek historical metaphors to explain...
Small-place fights and big wars
The relationship between conquest and conflict may seem straightforward: start a war, prevail on the battlefield, take control of desired territory, Dan Altman write...
Australia-India: alliances and self-reliance
By Rear Admiral Sudarshan Shrikhande, Indian Navy(Ret)*
It is difficult to recall so much global and naval attention being focused on submarines, nuclear or conventional,...
Can China build alliances?
As the United States, United Kingdom and Australia move to form a new AUKUS grouping, various reports have emerged of a “new Quad” led...
Thailand persisting with Kra canal
By Shaun Cameron
In 1677, the Thai monarch Narai the Great had a dream. He sent an engineer south to investigate the possibility of excavating...
Limiting non-proliferation blow-back
By Anastasia Kapetas*
If the architects of the AUKUS pact and its headline initiative to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines imagined it would be seen...
‘Mistreating’ allies with secret deal
France’s submarine trouble highlights its precarious status as a great power, the Irish Times reports.
By Lara Marlowe
“The three countries showed contempt for us when...
Manus and Lombrum base: five options
Manus Island and the Lombrum Naval Base: Five Options for Australia’s Geostrategic Gateway. Sea Power Soundings series.
By Adam Lockyer, Justin Burke, Yves-Heng Lim and...