US–Australia relationship brings big benefits to both
By Brendan Nicholson*
The conference rooms scattered through Lockheed Martin Australia’s headquarters in Canberra are each named after high-achieving scientists and other thinkers and doers—and...
Pivoting to the Pacific
By Alexandre Dayant and Jonathan Pryke*
Over the past year, there’s been a frenzy of public interest—in Australia and beyond—in the Pacific region. The concern...
Chinese Aid to the Pacific: What are the Concerns?
By Steven Warwick*
In April, the Chinese-built Luganville Wharf in Vanuatu prompted an Australian journalist to suggest that this might eventually lead to a Chinese...
Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2018 concludes
The world's largest international maritime exercise concluded Aug. 2 following more than a month of training events conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands...
Australia and the rules-based order of the oceans
By Professor Robin Warner
As one of the key maritime nations in the southern hemisphere and a prominent middle power, Australia has an important role...
Australia’s Plan B: time for some tough realism
By Anthony Milner*
In October 2016, before the US presidential election, I suggested that Australia was entering a foreign-policy crisis period—given the relative decline of...
Australian frigate decision analysed
World Naval Developments July 2018
By Norman Friedman*
At the end of June, the Royal Australian Navy announced that it had selected a version of the...
Ham and eggs: who’s really committed in the Indo-Pacific?
By John Powers*
When you order ham and eggs, you can be sure the pig is committed. The chook, well, it’s interested, but not like...
Truck, planes and ships: buy or build here?
By Marcus Hellyer*
Much of the argument for building warships and submarines in Australia ultimately rests on the rather dubious logic that we’re on an...
Mice that roar: coastal combatants in ASEAN
By John Coyne*
For very good reasons, maritime security concerns, particularly those centred on the South China Sea, have featured prominently in ASEAN member states’...