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As climate change alters the Arctic Ocean, the transformation of the world’s highest seas will push the nations surrounding it into an area of unresolved territorial disputes and increasingly higher financial stakes, Ian Birdwell writes.

By Rear Admiral Sudarshan Shrikhande* 1. During interactions with groups of officers, whether during the PCT for COs and XOs or Long courses or Subs’ courses, there have been interesting and always candid discussions on various issues. In addition, there are some perspectives in this edition of “Mashaal” that set me to pen some thoughts when I was shown the articles slated for inclusion in the journal.

This is the full text of the Vernon Parker Oration given by former Defence Minister and Australian Ambassador to the US, the Honourable Kim...

Vice Admiral Robert “Tubby” Squires, who has died aged 89, helped to commission Britain’s first nuclear-powered submarine. In 1960, when he was appointed first lieutenant...

After more than a decade of discussions, the Israeli Navy is in contract negotiations with the US Navy to purchase 76mm rapid-fire guns from...

China has called for preparations for a “people’s war at sea” to counter offshore security threats while its top court warned foreigners of criminal...

SOUTH Australia will directly target Europe with a new trade strategy aimed at leveraging activity off three new shipbuilding contracts, amid uncertainty around the...

The Ministry of Defence is planning to release more than £1bn, possibly as early as September, to enable BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce to begin...

On 9 August 1942 HMAS Canberra was lost in the night battle of Savo Island while protecting the Guadalcanal beachheads as part of a USN Task Force. Eighty four of her ship's company lost their lives. This account of the loss of the ship, and what became of her surviving crew when they took HMAS Shropshire to war, was prepared for a speech written for delivery at this year's Canberra memorial service in Canberra by LCDR Desmond Woods, RANR.

Norman Friedman looks at the consequences of Russian President Vladimir Putin firing the entire leadership of his Baltic Fleet, a purge on a scale not seen since Stalin’s bloody purges of the 1930s.