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THIS past week, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned the lead vessel of its new class of helicopter carrier at a ceremony at the Yokusuka naval base less than 10 miles south of Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city.

A PHOTO-ESSAY of the Danish Naval Task Group of seven ships visited Kiel Naval Base in Germany recently during the Danish naval exercise FLOTEX.

A KEY example of the Department of Defence’s commitment to harnessing WA’s defence sector is the ANZAC Frigate upgrade.

Mike Fogarty looks at the strategic dimensions of Royal Navy (RN) operations at Cyprus (1955-1959) and on the Arabian Peninsula (1957-1960).

THE Mediterranean is in crisis. The flow of migrants trafficked illegally by sea has reached the level of a humanitarian tragedy. It also places a heavy burden on the shipping industry.

By Claude Berube, Stephanie Chenault, Louis Martin-Vezian, Chris Rawley* ALTHOUGH the Saudi-led Operation RESOLUTE STORM (alternately translated as DECISIVE STORM) began with air strikes into...

By Will Yale* EVER since Xi Jinping announced the creation of a Maritime Silk Road in an October 2013 speech to the Indonesian parliament, China’s...

SINCE the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War in May 2009, the island-nation's maritime domain has been radically altered from a wartime to peacetime environment. With the threat posed by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) nullified, Sri Lanka's Navy has had to refocus to a new era of emerging challenges.

By Serge DeSilva-Ranasinghe and Mitchell Sutton* AS THE the number of Indian Ocean Coast Guard forces multiply, the region’s small island-states are moving to secure...