Super wood made stronger than most metals
Engineers at the University of Maryland have found a way to make wood more than ten times times stronger and tougher than before, creating...
54 years on, Voyager survivor tells his story
After 54 years Alan Hellier tells the story of his escape from Australia’s worst peacetime military disaster – and how he still believes the...
A ‘clever’ Australia needs a larger, more potent navy
By Richard Menhinick*
In an interview in Australian Foreign Affairs, Paul Keating noted that China under Xi Jinping was looking to craft a new form of global governance, rejecting the notion of China as a strategic client of the US. Keating also talked about our need to be clever. He observed that ‘before the Industrial Revolution, China was on the top of the system and had a tributary system of states which bowed and genuflected to them. Let’s hope we’re not going to be bowing and genuflecting.’ He went on to say that ‘self-reliance and self-help should be the keynote of our foreign policy’. In my view, that needs to expand to defence policy as well. Tet 50 years on
Mike Fogarty's reflections on the Tet offensive and the lessons to be learnt from it, 50 years on.
France and America attempted to shape and...
Australia’s strategic risk – a view from the red team
By Bob Moyse*
Paul Dibb and Richard Brabin-Smith’s recent ASPI paper, Australia’s management of strategic risk in the new era, is an important strategic piece,...
Rules-based world order under threat
2018 is starting to sound a little like 1984. Not the 1984 of Australia when capital punishment ended, Medicare began, banks were deregulated, and...
Higher collision risks for submarines
Operators of submarines in South-East Asia face much higher risks of collisions than in other parts of the world, a major regional conference has...
Australian Naval History Video and Podcast Series – S02
Season 2 of the Australian Naval History video & podcast series has commenced with two episodes on the famous World War II cruiser...
Defence export strategy launched
The Federal Government released a new Defence Export Strategy on 29 January 2018. The Strategy builds upon the Government's defence industry policy by setting out a comprehensive system to plan, guide, and measure defence export outcomes. Australian Naval Review 2017
The second edition of the Australian Naval Review has been published and is being posted to members. It contains the 2017 Vernon Parker Oration...