Administration rhetoric vs Navy strategy
By Philip Chr. Ulrich*
The challenge facing the United States is building a 21st century navy, operating in 19th century-styled great power competition, and upholding...
Marine strategy in age of global competition
By Harry Halem*
Introduction – Maritime and Grand Strategy
During the third presidential debate of the 2012 election season, then-President Obama famously characterized the foreign policy...
Promoting 21st century naval norms of cooperation
By Commodore Olutunde Oladimeji, NN (ret.)*
Anytime we see photos of international naval exercises, involving many warships, large and small, what comes to mind is...
Warramunga Mid-East mission ends after big drug hauls
HMAS Warramunga is returning to Australia after a highly successful Royal Australian Navy (RAN) deployment to the Middle East Region. The Minister for Defence,...
Narcosubs: innovation in the war on drugs
By Javier Guerrero C.
Last year, the Colombian Navy detected and captured the first electric narco-submarine.1 Demonstrating the innovative capacities of Colombian drug traffickers, narco-submarines,...
India’s interest in unsinkable aircraft carriers
By David Brewster
Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating once recounted describing to an American admiral the sound a US aircraft carrier would make...
Who lost the South China Sea?
By Brahma Chellaney*
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has spoken out against China’s strategy of ‘intimidation and coercion’ in the South China Sea, including the...
Defence needs to be more effective with projects
By Brendan Nicholson*
As Defence embarks on a series of massive and complex building programs, the department’s secretary, Greg Moriarty, has warned that it needs...
Sovereignty is the key to defence industry policy
By Graeme Dunk*
Sovereignty is now the buzzword of defence industry policy, applied liberally to whatever project is under discussion. The idea has been further...
Sub conference early bird booking
Early-bird registrations for the 9th Biennial Submarine Institute of Australia (SIA) Conference 2018 close next week. This year’s conference, where the theme is “Collins...