A retired RAN lieutenant reflects – An AS 519 journal for 2015
Mike Fogarty looks at views on military strategy as we await the Defence White paper. From Eagle’s Nest to Soaring High in the Skies
A Discussion of the Value, Training & Future of the Australian Air Force Cadets, and a Short History of the Broader Cadet Movement in Australia
By Gary Martinic New Algerian frigate
The new Algerian Navy MEKO A200 class frigate PN 910 has conducted its first sea trials in the Baltic Sea. Photo Michael Nitz. China lands first civilian plane on disputed islands
A TEST flight by a civilian plane landed on an island in the South China Sea, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. It’s the first time the country has done so in the disputed Spratly Islands. Tensions are now high with neighbouring Vietnam and the Philippines. Unmanned vessels / Russian helos for Egypt / Cybersecurity guidelines
News: Unmanned vessels: implications / Russian helos for Egyptian Mistral class ships / Shipping cybersecurity guidelines. Preparing for the future – tactical planning for the RAN
By Lieutenant Commander J A Edmondson*
NAVAL warfare officers spend the majority of their early careers at sea in the RAN either in single naval units or in modestly sized naval task groups. They are extensively trained in naval tactical planning on Principal Warfare Officer (PWO) course and use this training operationally at sea. However, the majority only get a rudimentary exposure to Joint planning or tactical planning in the land environment. Long view needed for Australian naval shipbuilding
We’ve been building ships the hard way for so long (start, stop, start, stop in small numbers of different designs) that the Australian collective understanding of what is possible is very limited. Can we now maintain the direction towards continuous ship-building that was set in 2015? Join the debate.
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.