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By Matt Bartlett China’s activities in Vanuatu may have attracted scrutiny but its investment in military artificial intelligence has received less attention. The robots may not be coming for your jobs, but they are likely to be coming to an ocean near you.

Would ANZUS apply in a confrontation between the US and North Korea, Alison Pert asks?

Retired submarine specialist and past president of the Submarine Institute of Australia Peter Briggs takes a more detailed look at the search for AE1 and why it was successful.

By Dr Peter Layton* There’s a fundamental problem in Australia’s relationship with China: China’s growth advances prosperity but menaces security. If the rules-based order construct...

This is the speech by Lieutenant Commander Desmond Woods, RANR, at the Australian Merchant Navy Day of Remembrance, 8 April 2018. The maritime history of Australia in peace and war has been until recently a largely neglected subject. Many Australians are just not ‘sea-minded’. Though our National Anthem mentions that we are “girt by sea” most Australians think of the country as being “girt by beach!” This national sea blindness has meant that after both world wars ended there was little collective memory of the scale of effort necessary to win the War at Sea.

The last episode of Season Two of the Australian Naval History video and podcast series has been released. It covers the bloody Battle of...

A crewman on HMAS Voyager who narrowly escaped from the wheelhouse of the ship before it sank in 1964 was intimidated into silence for more than half a century by a British naval officer who rose to become an admiral in the Royal Navy, the Guardian reports.

Norman Friedman: At the end of February Lockheed-Martin received a contract for two linked shipboard laser systems: a high-energy laser intended to deal with unmanned aircraft and small boats, and a counter-unmanned aircraft dazzler linked to a long-range high-resolution camera. The system, to be delivered in 2020, is called HELIOS (High Energy Laser and Integrated Dazzler with Surveillance). The navy already operates a laser intended to deal with small boats (on board the base ship Ponce). The associated aiming/surveillance system has proven quite valuable in examining potential threats before engaging them. HELIOS is to be integrated with the Aegis system on board cruisers and destroyers; as such it is to be the first standardized U.S. Navy laser weapon.

* By Allan Gyngell For countries like New Zealand and Australia, the international environment is getting much tougher. The post-war global order, within which their...

The term multidomain has reached beyond mainstream military parlance to dominate defense-related discussions, concept papers, and op-eds. While the idea of operating across warfighting domains is hardly original, the rapid growth of capabilities tied to the newly minted space and cyber domains is forcing a re-examination of all previous military concepts and doctrine. This article explores the debate around multidomain battle (MDB).