Dark clouds on capability horizon
By Marcus Hellyer*
There will be much celebration of the Royal Australian Navy’s achievements at this week’s Indo-Pacific Sea Power Conference and maritime exposition. They...
Crew suffer in refit nightmare
It's an extraordinary tale of tragedy and neglect that has consumed one of America's massive aircraft carriers and turned into a nightmare for the...
HMS Sheffield remembered 40 years on
With water brought all the way from the ocean where their ship now rests, veterans of HMS Sheffield watched her memorial dedicated – 40...
More Russian warships attacked
The Ukrainian Government has announced that its forces have badly damaged the Russian frigate Admiral Makarov with at least one Neptune missile and in a separate attack...
Coral Sea and Midway battles explained
Eighty years ago two crucial sea battles were fought that turned the war against the Japanese in the Pacific: the Battle of the Coral...
Primer on hypersonic weapons
Probably sparked by the use of hypersonic missiles in the Russian-Ukraine War the US Congressional Research Service has released a primer on these weapons. It...
Fossil fuel as warfare’s weak link
By Lt. Col. Theodore “Doc” Shanks and Alexander Gard-Murray*
While the world witnesses Russia’s senseless and shockingly muddled invasion of Ukraine, military logisticians around the globe are drawing a collective...
Australia should make long-range missiles
By Graeme Dunk*
In a recent article on this forum, Peter Dean argued that a rethink of the Australian Defence Force’s land-based strike requirements is...
Making Australia fit for AUKUS
By Lesley Seebeck*
The early days in any great undertaking can be chaotic. The AUKUS partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States...
Understanding the price of military equipment
By Marcus Hellyer*
Confusion reigns in discussions about the cost of the Department of Defence’s equipment projects. Whether we’re talking about media articles, parliamentary committee hearings,...