The future is now, Defence Minister says
By Brendan Nicholson*
Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has mapped out why Australia needs to quickly develop a much more potent defence force to deal with...
US Navy to work on race barriers
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday plans to stand up a Navy task force that will look for ways to remove racial barriers...
NATO starts anti-submarine exercise
The U.S. and five other NATO allies have kicked off exercise Dynamic Mongoose off the coast of Iceland on Monday to enhance their anti-submarine...
Defence spending unaffected by Covid
By Marus Hellyer*
The big question heading into the defence strategic update that Prime Minister Scott Morrison launched yesterday was what impact the Covid-19 crisis...
RAN’s role in the Suez Crisis
This paper was written for the Naval Historical Society of Australia by Society volunteer, Commander Martin Linsley RAN Rtd. Its genesis was a list...
Sydney City Marine gets ADF docking qualification
Sydney City Marine (SCM) has been assessed by the Naval Technical Bureau (NTB) as having achieved the requirements of the Australian Defence Force Maritime...
Farewell to Vice Admiral Ian MacDougall
By LCDR Alistair Tomlinson
Australia’s most senior submariner and former Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Ian MacDougall AC AFSM RAN, has died at age...
Long history of various maritime security threats
By James Goldrick*
As a former naval officer and current student of maritime affairs, I have long been infuriated by the blanket use of the...
How Japan deals with Chinese undersea fleet
Japanese forces chased a Chinese submarine out of Japanese waters on Thursday. Officials in Tokyo characterized the sub’s infiltration as part of China’s escalating...
Congress slows Pentagon’s unmanned push
Unmanned surface vessels are all the rage in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the U.S. Navy has lined up behind the...