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...
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...