HMAS Warramunga returns from record breaking mission
HMAS Warramunga has returned home to a hero’s welcome from family and friends after spending almost nine months deployed to the Middle East. The...
US Navy sails into the Taiwan Strait
By Sam Roggeveen*
It’s inevitable that, when the US sails warships through the Taiwan Strait, it will be interpreted as a broader diplomatic statement or...
Hard truths about the US–Australia alliance
By Zack Cooper*
The US–Australia alliance focuses too much on its past and too little on its future. That may seem sacrilegious, particularly amid the...
FOIP – a new name signals shift with China’s rise
By Huong Le Thu*
The free and open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) isn’t just a new name; it signals an important shift in framing a geostrategic understanding...
China will challenge US naval supremacy ‘within a year’
China's biggest challenge to the supremacy of the US Navy will come within the year, a well regarded Australian strategic analyst predicted in Washington...
Brunei, 1962 – The RAN and its unfought war
By Mike Fogarty
The Brunei operation was conducted from 8 to 23 December, 1962. It also extended to North Borneo (Sarawak). It was an internal...
RIMPAC and China’s push with Belt and Road, the seas and the net
By Nicholas Stuart
The water sparkles.
I’m standing, this blissful morning, on the bridge of HMAS Adelaide, just off Hawaii. The tropical storm clouds have parted...
CN Tim Barrett hands over the weight
Vice Admiral Tim Barrett has formally ended his term as Chief of Navy, following a handover ceremony at Blamey Square in Canberra. VADM Barrett...
$35b on frigates: BAE wins – has Australia won too?
By Michael Shoebridge
So, the nine new Hunter-class anti-submarine warfare frigates will be built by BAE Systems in Osborne, South Australia, with ASC Shipbuilding acting...
Hunting for the reason – the new frigates
By Mike Scrafton*
The 2016 Defence White Paper stated that the nine new future frigates will be ‘optimised for anti-submarine warfare’. According to the Turnbull...