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THE US Navy’s next generation of landing system for its Gerald Ford-class aircraft carrier successfully trapped its first aircraft last week

The MAGTF (pronounced MAG-TAF) is the soul of how the Marines organize themselves, from the 500 Marine special purpose units forward deployed in Europe,...

RAPID developments in maritime Asia have regional analysts and scholars debating the new emerging security architecture. India and the role it can play seem...

DEVELOPMENTS in the South China Sea are bringing India into a debate it generally maintains a distance from. India's shift in its maritime policies...

John F. Morton* UNDER defense strategic guidance, U.S. combatant commanders have been rebalancing joint forces along the Asia-Pacific Rim with recalibrated capabilities to shape the...

Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper says a lot about the South China Sea, both directly and indirectly, but some of its arguments are flawed, Sam Bateman writes

By Serge DeSilva-Ranasinghe, Mitchell Sutton and Brad Griffin* HISTORICALLY overlooked by Australia’s traditionally east coast focused policy establishment, the significance of Western Australia to the national defence has become increasingly apparent as new factors begin to alter the strategic balance in the Indian Ocean. Today, the State fills a key role in the Commonwealth’s defence posture, playing host to a number of nationally significant facilities and capabilities and giving the ADF a window into several of the world’s least stable regions.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder, announced it launched South Korea’s seventh KSS-II 1,800-ton submarine, HONG BEOM-DO, (pictured) at its Special & Naval Shipbuilding Division in Ulsan, South Korea.

By Gregory P. Gilbert, ANI Book Review Editor THE Battle of Jutland was the most important naval engagement of World War I. It was fought in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Sea Fleet on 31 May - 01 June 1916. To commemorate the centenary, ANI Book Review Editor Dr Gregory P. Gilbert is commissioning reviews of the major books being published to mark the event.

China has begun operating a lighthouse (pictured) on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea near which a U.S. warship sailed last year to challenge China's territorial claims. China's transport ministry held a "completion ceremony", marking the start of operations at the 55-metre (180-ft) high lighthouse on Subi Reef, where construction began in October, state news agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday (4 April 2016).