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)...
PLA-N replenishment ship training video
Video has been released of the PLA Navy’s replenishment ship Chaganhu and the guided-missile destroyer Changsha conducting stern replenishment. View it here.
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...
80th anniversary of St Nazaire
Sailors and Royal Marines paid their respects to the ultimate commando raid in Falmouth – 80 years after the attackers sailed from the Cornish...
Remembering the Falklands
Forty years to the day hospital ship Uganda left Gibraltar for the Falklands a memorial honouring those who made it possible was unveiled.
The Naval...
Second Japanese carrier’s F-35B conversion
DDH "Kaga" is being modified in order to operate the F-35B fighter. The battleship Yamato (once the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy) was built...
US Navy’s duty to Congress
By Matthew Hipple and Michael DeBoer*
The military has two masters – the executive, who directs and operates, and the legislature, who regulates and budgets....
Two more Evolved-class patrol boats for Navy
Prime Minister Scott Morrison today announced the Department of Defence will order an additional two Evolved Cape-class Patrol Boats (ECCPB’s) for the Royal Australian Navy,...
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...