RAN ships leave fiji
HMA Ships Adelaide and Melbourne have farewelled Fiji following a successful port visit as part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2018 (IPE). Both ships arrived in...
Insight into UK’s maritime strategy
A transcript of the interview between Dr. Eric Grove (EG) and Roger Hilton (RH) is below. The transcript has been edited for clarity.
RH: Hello...
Maritime element in national security and defence strategies
By Jack McKechnie*
The recently released U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) and National Defense Strategy (NDS) have major implications for maritime security.
In December 2017,...
‘Indo-Pacific’: (re-)revise and resubmit
By Huong Le Thu*
At the 17th Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) last weekend, the ‘Indo-Pacific’ was the leitmotif. From Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi and US...
Initiative and technology in naval warfare
By Captain Jeffrey Kline, USN (Ret.)
Seventy five years ago, Ensign “Dagwood” Propst sat in the pilot seat of his large PBY search plane waiting...
US Second Fleet comes out of the cold
World naval developments May 2018
By Norman Friedman*
In May the U.S. Navy announced that it was reactivating Second Fleet in response to growing Russian...
Has the PLA really overlooked its amphibious force?
By Grant Newsham*
It might surprise the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to learn they’ve short-changed themselves on amphibious capability. Sam Roggeveen wrote on The Interpreter...
Senate estimates hearing suggests a submarine cost blow-out
By Marcus Hellyer*
Something interesting happened at the Department of Defence’s Senate estimates hearing this month (June 2018). Buried among the largely predictable and interminable...
Scholarships for women in maritime sector
This is the final call for all women currently working in the maritime sector to express their interest in current financial year scholarship funding...
An inclusive rules-based international order
By Richard Rigby*
Australia declared in last year’s Foreign Policy White Paper that it would promote the rules-based international order. While most countries see it...