China and the Solomons – is the sky really falling?
By Clive Williams*
China’s security pact with the Solomons took less than a week to go from being a framework security agreement to being a...
Axe Hunter class, former RAN chief says
By David Shackleton*
In 2009, Australia’s government decided that it would replace eight Anzac-class frigates with nine ships optimised for anti-submarine warfare (ASW). There was...
Nuanced settling of maritime disputes
Maritime disputes in Southeast Asia should be viewed less as a single big basket of problems, and more as smaller individual problems with their...
The Solomon Islands and the China Coast Guard
By Tim Coyle*
The eruption of hysteria on both sides of the political sphere, coincidently in the middle of an election campaign, has again demonstrated the...
New UK frigate under construction
A collection of videos and photographs show the current state of HMS Glasgow as the Type 26 Frigate is being built by BAE Systems...
US Navy to axe five Growler squadrons
The U.S. Navy is proposing to deactivate five electronic attack squadrons, or VAQs, that operate the Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack jet, roughly a...
US cruisers to go in five years
USS Vicksburg (CG-69) is in the middle of a $200 million repair period meant to keep the guided-missile cruiser in the fleet well into...
China’s first amphibious assault ship operational
In April the PLA-N's first Type-075 amphibious assault ship, the Hainan became operational.
This was China's first independently-built landing helicopter dock ship. It has the...
Awful truth: Russia could win this
The awful truth is dawning: Putin may win in Ukraine. The result would be catastrophe, Simon Tisdall writes in the Guardian.
The contrast was startling....
Viet-Russian exercises in the offing?
By Carl Thayer*
On April 19, RIA Nosvosti filed a dispatch from Vladivostok quoting the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO): “For the first...