Articles

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...

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...

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Norman Friedman warns that Russian triumphalism means it is not time to go for nuclear disarmament.

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...

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.

Address to the ASPI Australia Future Surface Fleet Conference Canberra, 31 March 2015. Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, AO, CSC, RAN I WOULD like...

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.

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.

By The Hon Kevin Andrews MP, Minister for Defence THE Abbott Government is committed to a sustainable Australian naval shipbuilding industry. Sadly, years of...