Australia should lead on critical minerals
By Kim Beazley*
Australia has the chance to resolve the problems the AUKUS partners and their friends and allies have with critical minerals, particularly with...
BAE leading manager wins McNeil Prize
The 2024 ANI McNeil Prize has been awarded to Craig Lockhart from BAE Systems Australia.
At the Australian Naval Institute’s Annual Dinner on 15 May, the Chief...
The long arc of Australian defence strategy
By Michael Pezzullo*
Kim Beazley was appointed as Minister for Defence on 13 December 1984. He oversaw a revolution in Australian defence, as profoundly important...
US Navy recruitment challenges
The Navy’s ongoing struggle to meet recruitment missions and the Marine Corps’ growing concerns over the shrinking pool of possible enlistees topped a Senate...
Projected defence spending up 11pc
By David Uren*
The Australian federal budget shows defence will receive a significant increase in funding over the next decade under the new National Defence...
Sea blindness in the ADF
By Nereus*
‘We do not have that sense of the sea and our surroundings which is generally developed in an island people’1
For a country that's...
Admiral Dinesh Tripathi becomes India’s 26th Chief of Naval Staff
Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, PVS assumed command of the Indian Navy on 30 April 2024 as the 26th Chief of the Naval Staff. He...
First female PLA-N carrier pilots
On 29 April 29 it was reported that he first group of female pilot trainees from the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation...
29 navies at 19th Western Pacific Symposium
The 19th Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) was hosted by Admiral Hu Zhongming, the Commander of the Peoples Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N), in Qingdao during...
Inflection point on high seas
By Navy Undersecretary Erik K. Raven*
Our nation is at an inflection point. How we respond to the tremendous challenges and unprecedented opportunities we face...