RAN mine-hunter visits Port Kembla
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) minehunter known as HMAS Gascoyne has visited Port Kembla for the first time in almost seven years. HMAS Gascoyne...
Ford carrier delayed again due to ‘first-of-class issues’
Delivery of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has been pushed back again, this time by about a month and a half due to ongoing first-in-class challenges.
Raytheon, Navy Set to Start AMDR Testing in Hawaii
The Navy and Raytheon are set to start testing the AN/SPY-6(v) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) at the service’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, the company’s AMDR program director told US Naval Institute News (July 2016). Going just short of war
China is employing measures short of war to attain strategic objectives. Other countries should meet the challenge, Vidya Sagar Reddy writes. Don’t forget human factor in littoral combat
James Holmes stresses the importance on the human factor in littoral combat, arguing that merely getting information and feeding it into a computer is not enough. NATO countries’ defence spending revealed
NATO collects defence expenditures from Allies on a regular basis and presents aggregates and subsets of this information.
Each Allied country’s Ministry of Defence...
Sulu Sea trilateral patrols need political will
A spate of shipjackings and kidnapping-for-ransoms has imperiled regional trade in Southeast Asia and prompted calls for trilateral maritime policing in the waters between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Chilcot: Intelligence, policy and war
The Chilcot report amounts to a comprehensive indictment of British Prime Minister Blair’s unilateral decision to support the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Allan Behm writes. The bolt from The Hague
Of the 15 cases submitted by the Philippines in its dispute over China’s excessive maritime claims in the South China Sea, Manila received relief on almost every point of substance, Euan Graham writes. South China Sea decision explained
THE ruling in the case brought by the Philippines against China’s activities in the South China Sea is significant – not just because it involves China, but because it tackles key ambiguities and uncertainties in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Clive Schofield writes.