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By Tim McGeehan and Douglas Wahl* A new domain of conflict emerges as America transitions onto a wartime footing. Military, commercial, and private interests debate how to balance security, privacy, and utility for new technology that unleashes the free-flow of information. The President issues Executive Orders to seize and defend the associated critical infrastructure for exclusive government use for the duration of the conflict.

By Kim Beazley* This is the year of significant anniversaries marking the Australia–US relationship. In May we commemorated the 75th anniversary of the battle of the Coral Sea and more recently the 50th birthday of the joint facilities, led by Pine Gap, which the late Des Ball aptly described as the ‘strategic essence’ of the American alliance. Last month Defence Minister Marise Payne gave a shout-out for the 50th anniversary of the first of the joint facilities, the North West Cape Naval Communication Station, named for the late Harold E. Holt, one-time Australian prime minister.

By Andrew Carr* If Australian politicians are certain about one thing regarding the future, it’s that ‘we do not have to choose’ between the US...

By Andrew Davies* My previous post on the future submarines talked about having a Plan B in case the project runs into insurmountable problems. In...

The Australian Government has announced that Lendlease has been selected as the managing contractor for the construction of the Osborne South Shipyard and has...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, the Secretary for National Defense Delfin Lorenzana and a delegation of senior government and military officials visited HMAS Adelaide (Oct 2017) as Australia continues to work closely with the Government of the Philippines to counter the threat of terrorism in the region.

Will Taylor responds to the article by "Sir Humphrey" The Royal Marine Corps. What is it good for?

By Greg Colton* One-third of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface combatant force is committed to the wrong part of the world, at least according to James Goldrick and Andrew Shearer in an opinion piece in The Australian (Oct 2017). They argue there is a shift in the balance of power in the Asia Pacific (for which, read an increasingly confident and capable Chinese navy), and that Australia can ‘can no longer take a free and open region for granted’.

The Naval Studies Group at the University of New South Wales (Canberra) in partnership with the Australian Naval Institute, the RAN Seapower Centre, Naval...

The Royal Australian Navy has drawn the Sea Power Conference to a close after three intense days of presentations, bilateral meetings, industry engagements and...