Moving against Russia in the far north
By Tom Sharpe*
US marine corps missile vehicles landed on Jan Mayen, a remote volcano island in the High North (August 2026)
It is 560 miles...
Indonesia gets Italian carrier
The decommissioned Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi has set sail for its new home in Indonesia as the Southeast Asian country prepares to operate...
AUKUS: abandon case not made out
The following is the executive summary of the submission by Professor John Blaxland* to the non-government AUKUS Public Inquiry.
AUKUS – A Controversial & Consequential...
The AUKUS sovereignty conundrum
Michael Hickey and James Fitzgerald*
Australia must exploit ambiguity in its sovereignty narrative to enable AUKUS. The Garrett Enquiry is energising the Australian public to...
The armyfication of the US Navy
By Eric Lies*
The United States Navy has set a course that will see it morph into an army on the sea. The differentiating factors...
New US Navy Secretary
President Donald Trump announced on social media that he was nominating Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to assume the position full-time.
The former Virginia Senate...
Reels and Reflections: 40 Years in the RAN
By CAPT Paul D Pelczar, OAM RAN*
By the year of my enlistment, HMAS Melbourne — the flat top — had already been decommissioned, taking...
Why the US is failing in Iran
By Major General (Dr.) Rambir Singh Mann (Retired), Indian Army
The U.S.-Iran war has provided an operational test of American maritime power. Despite assembling a...
Obituary: LCMR John Clarke
Lieutenant-Commander John Clarke, who has died aged 82, was a naval hydrographer and the project manager behind one of the most celebrated marine salvage...
Two new ships commissioned
The Royal Australian Navy has welcomed HMAS Cape Spencer and HMAS Cape Hawke into service, in a commissioning ceremony at HMAS Cairns, Australian Defence Magazine reports.
The 58.1m...