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2016 Blamey Oration: The Dragon and the Snakes: Emerging and Future Security Threats in the Post-Cold War Order: Dr David Kilcullen. Canberra. 9 November...

The amphibious assault on the Suez Canal Zone, in late 1956, was significant for many reasons. At the outset, it was an Anglo-French coalition in complicity with Israel. Moreover, at a long distance, it was a force projection of combined operations at its best, Mike Fogarty writes.

By 2050, almost half the world’s economic output is expected to come from the Indo-Pacific. This presents opportunities to increase Australia’s economy and security, but this can only be achieved through an integrated border security capability that manages risk, facilitates the flow of legitimate maritime traffic, manages our marine resources for legitimate use, protects our marine environment and delivers social and economic opportunities for Australians.

The Canberra Class – HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Canberra – have already delivered a more robust and sustainable amphibious capability than at any previous time in the ADF’s peacetime history, Defence Minister Senator Marise Payne told the 2016 ANI annual Goldrick seminar. The class underpins ADF amphibious capability through their capacity to facilitate a range of operations, including supporting the security of maritime South East Asia and Pacific Island Countries and addressing emergent threats in the broader Indo-Pacific region.

The Philippine Navy (PN) and the Royal Australian Navy formally opened the other day the “Exercise Lumbas 2016” at the Naval Forces Central (NFC)...

Ship detachment of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, including ADMIRAL TRIBUTS and ADMIRAL VINOGRADOV large ASW ships, PERESVET large landing ship, ALATAU sea tug and PECHENGA...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia –The U.S. Navy’s Commander of Logistics Group Western Pacific/Task Force 73 is in the process of expanding its maintenance and support...

A US Navy guided missile destroyer launched an attack against three radar sites in Yemen with Tomahawk cruise missiles in response to recent attacks...

For most Singaporeans, the 1983 Sentosa cable car disaster is a distant memory. But the dramatic incident 33 years ago is still clearly etched in the mind of retired Australian naval officer Geoffrey Ledger, who played a key role in the rescue of 13 people trapped in four cars after an oil rig snagged the cable system.

By Bret Perry* On the cold, cloudy afternoon of March 18th, 2018, the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and its Amphibious Readiness Group steamed through the Baltic Sea about 100 miles south of the Swedish island of Gotland, just west of Lithuania and Latvia. With its full squadron of three amphibious assault ships, including the USS Bataan Landing Helicopter Dock, and three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, this impressive US military presence in the Baltic Sea was unprecedented. In response to unusual Russian military activity near Estonia, including the presence of ‘little green men’ in the border town of Narva, the new White House administration was determined to send a message to Moscow. . . .