HMAS Newcastle heads to cut off drug vessel
AUSTRALIAN Navy missile frigate HMAS Newcastle has been sent this week (11 Nov 2016) to intercept a suspected drug smuggling ship off northern NSW.
HMAS...
Suez 60 years on: implications for the Royal Navy
Sixty years on Dr Tim Benbow looks at the many salutary lessons for British strategy and defence policy provided by the Suez crisis. Canada changes new warship ground rules
Canada has opened up its competition for new warships to designs yet to be proven, despite its previous commitment to purchase only off-the-shelf vessels.
The...
UK ship-building projects to 2034
CONSTRUCTION of the Royal Navy’s new Type 26 frigates will begin next (northern) summer, the Defence Secretary confirmed. Michael Fallon (pictured) was at BAE's...
Duterte plays a long game to secure Philippine advantage
Behind the crude populism, President Duterte has an intuitive grasp of what is best for the Philippines, Jonathan Bogais argues.
Pretty vacant. Some random thoughts on World War One
By Mike Fogarty*
TO WHAT extent was the Australian Imperial Force’s experience in the First World War similar to...
Change or fall behind, US defence leader says
The driving concept behind the Pentagon’s Third Offset Strategy comes down to : If we’re not changing, we’re losing to “pacing competitors” like Russia and China in conventional warfare. Joint Australian-Indon South China Sea approach
Australia is considering joint patrols with Indonesia in the disputed South China Sea, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Tuesday, in a move set to...
Australian sub in NZ for anniversary
A submarine has been spotted in Auckland this morning, the NZ Herald reports. But there's no need to worry, it's just the Aussies dropping...
Ukraine rebuilds navy, with U.S. help
Ukraine is refitting and expanding its naval fleet, including repairing its flagship, the frigate "Hetman Sahaydachnyy", to counter a Russian military build-up in the...