Improved Russian sub and Chinese carrier
THE stealth capabilities of Russia’s new LADA-CLASS diesel-electric submarines far exceed those of their predecessors, Admiralty Shipyard’s CEO Alexander Buzakov told the Russian press. Distributed lethality and concepts of future war
Distributed lethality can offer versatile means for achieving political and military objectives in an era of lean budgets and evolving threats, according to Dmitry Filipoff. If China’s Goliath threatens Asia, then arm David
THERE is a Goliath menacing the western Pacific. China’s construction of three huge artificial islands with obvious military capacity in the South China Sea has already destabilized the security equilibrium in the region. So we should arm David, Jerry Hendrix argues. World naval developments – December 2015
The British Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) responds to a new security environment in which major governments (Russia) are at least as threatening as insurgents (ISIL and its friends), Norman Friedman writes in his monthly review of world naval developments. Kim Beazley to be Parker orator in 2016
Former Defence Minister, Opposition Leader and retiring Australian Ambassador to the US, Kim Beazley, is to be the Australian Naval Institute's 2016 Vernon Parker Orator. ANI president sets scene at Goldrick seminar
ANI president puts Defence White Paper into naval context and advocates the adoption of a common design philosophy across the future fleet. Strategic Culture? We need to talk
By Mike Fogarty
STRATEGIC Culture is a relatively new concept, which has increasingly come into academic usage since it was first introduced less than four decades ago. Indon piracy campaign; Russian N-sub trouble; and more news
The Indonesian Navy has launched a new campaign to combat piracy, according to Rear Admiral Achmad Taufiqoerrochman. A Sydney-Hobart to remember for the Navy’s Tam o’ Shanter, 1956-57
By Ian Crawford*
AS A year officer at the naval college from 1956 to 1957 I was committed to crew Tam o’ Shanter, the college’s entry in the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race. Our sailing master was Lieutenant Commander John Lancaster, another of the year officers and an enthusiast for everything he took on. Update on key six programs in Fleet renewal
AT THE annual ANI Goldrick seminar in December CDRE Rob Elliott provided an update of six of the key programs of Australia's fifth Fleet...