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China’s trade routes, sea- and land-based encircle India with hard-power undertones and soft power attraction. Soft power diplomacy, brought out at Xi’s and Modi’s meetings, cloaks a long- term mistrust in India towards China and exposes vulnerabilities in India’s relations with its South Asian neighbours, Dr Auriol Weigold argues.

At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting later this month in Manila, the elephant in the room will be the South China Sea, Grenatec reports.

Paul Mitchell, a professor at Canadian Forces College, explores the question of narratives as it relates to Canada’s submarine fleet.

Michael Fogarty contends that the supply and movement of armies changed throughout history, along with the social, economic and scientific development of civilisation, in its constituent and evolving progress.

CN VADM Tim Barrett draws lessons from Trafalgar about the availability of ships.

Norman Friedman compares the Perry and LCS frigates, now the last Perry class has been decommissioned.

The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, outlined plans for the future of the Royal Australian Navy in a speech to the Naval...

Admiral Lord West of Spithead looks at the history of British maritime power and its economic importance. The full speech is here.

THE Indian Ocean may be the only ocean named for a country, but it’s still heavily contested territory. Both China and India, who have major strategic interests there, are suspicious of each other. Their struggle for leadership in the “emerging world” will play out for decades and all around the globe, but today the Indian Ocean is Ground Zero.

By Dr Gurpreet S. Khurana* IN mid-September 2015, Australia and India held their first-ever bilateral naval exercise, AUSINDEX-2015. The week-long exercise in the Bay of Bengal, has a far-reaching import, and highlights Australia’s national-strategic reorientation in recent years.