Maritime surveillance in Indian Ocean
By David Brewster and Samuel Bashfield*
The Indian Ocean is an increasingly contested strategic environment. A growing Chinese naval presence raises the prospect that Beijing...
Arming Taiwan for sea denial
By Collin Fox*
Precision munitions have been sinking warships for the better part of a century, but never before have they been so capable, so...
India’s new carrier Vikrant’s sea trials
On 4 August India's locally designed and built aircraft carrier Vikrant commenced sea trials. Designed by the Indian Navy's Directorate of Naval Design she was built at...
US needed to prevent Arctic contest
Enhancing presence and cultivating partnerships in the Arctic are vital to ensuring the region does not become a contested space, according to 2nd Fleet...
Philippines keeps US pact and exercises
The Philippines will keep having large-scale combat exercises with the United States after President Rodrigo Duterte retracted his decision to terminate a key defense...
Double replenishment exercise a success
The UK's Carrier Strike Group has carried out a double replenishment at sea (RAS) - as F-35 jets took off from, and landed on, HMS Queen Elizabeth, forces...
China’s warning to UK’s strike group
China has warned the UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG) upon its arrival in the contentious South China Sea, saying it is ready to deal...
European middle powers in the Indo-Pacific
By Nilanthi Samaranayake*
European middle powers are not typically part of U.S. discussions of the Indo-Pacific. However, in an era of growing strategic competition, they...
Australians prepared for naval shipbuilding
By Ian Irving*
This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2020, Issue 2, in December 2020.
It is no secret that there are jobs...
Japan’s naval flag a point of contention
South Korea -- Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan's wartime atrocities, and is comparable to the...