Changing Times, Lasting Values — Vernon Parker Oration
Dr Brendan Nelson, Director of the Australian War Memorial
Vice Admiral Peter Jones, President of the Australian Naval Institute, Darren Chester Parliamentary Secretary to...
China’s naval modernisation: implications for US
By Dmitry Filipoff*
“The U.S.-Chinese military balance in the Pacific could nevertheless influence day-to-day choices made by other Pacific countries, including choices on whether to...
Russia’s Tu-160 bomber is back: should US worry?
By Tom Nichols*
RUSSIAN defense minister Sergei Shoigu announced recently that Russia is going to begin production of the Tu-160, a Soviet-era bomber known as...
AWM Director to be Vernon Parker orator
Brendan Nelson .....
World naval developments – April 2015
Norman Friedman warns that Russian triumphalism means it is not time to go for nuclear disarmament. The third way: towards an Australian maritime strategy for 21st century
By Michael Evans
Executive Summary
This paper argues that, despite being the world’s largest island, the greatest paradox of Australia’s existence is that the...
Naval power and the democratic state in the 21st century
The defence of our nations’ legitimacy, authority and credibility in the 21st century depends on our ability to project strategic lethal force over, on and beneath the sea, CN tells US conference. CN tells of Navy’s future requirements
Address to the ASPI Australia Future Surface Fleet Conference Canberra, 31 March 2015.
Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, AO, CSC, RAN
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An Ocean for my Kingdom
By Robert Cuthbert Blake
THE story of HMS Ocean has probably not yet been fully told – from humble origins as a sea transport Ro-Ro vessel to get an Embarked Military Force (consisting of British Army / UK and Netherland Royal Marines) on their one-way ticket to Norway (and hopefully back) after 30 days, to Flagship of the Royal Navy. Piracy in Indian Ocean still remains
By Thomas Bennett LLB MSc (Oxon)
SOMALIA remains a failed state. Poverty, the absence of enforced law and psychopathy masquerading as a just cause foments an environment where money for gain, or money to finance terror, means that piracy in The Indian Ocean has not gone away.