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Bookings close 13 June for Vernon Parker Oration The ANI has established, with the support this year of Lockheed Martin Australia, a prize to be...

THE Royal Australian Navy (RAN) marked the first operational deployment of an Anzac-class frigate fitted with an upgraded combat system designed to bolster the...

THE next government should commit to Australia providing leadership in the Indo–Pacific in oceans affairs. Countries can’t be good at everything, but we should try to be a smart nation in ocean affairs, Anthony Bergin of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute argues. Australia’s a three ocean country with significant national interests in the Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans, as well as interests the Coral Sea and in the Arafura and Timor seas. Oceans define our geography. They’re critical to our security, with our dependence on maritime commerce and the maintenance of freedom of movement for shipping.

By Jon Solomon* LAST (northern) winter’s Naval War College Review contained a must-read article on the Soviet Navy’s doctrine from the 1980s for employing its...

'Slack' is a communication tool set designed by software engineers to streamline their own team’s communication. In that spirit, it is very deliberately built, intuitive to use, and efficiently designed. More relevant to any commander or unit leader looking to streamline their team’s communication, Slack works without the need for any installation or system integration. Users log in and build a team through the Slack website. That’s it.

TWO events set the stage for India-China strategic competition going underwater – one is the docking of China’s submarine in Sri Lanka’s Colombo port and the other is the loss of India’s submarine INS Sindhurakshak in a major fire incident. These and subsequent events showed that China is signalling its strategic intentions in the Indian Ocean via its submarines while the resident power is scrambling.

THE PAST last decade has featured rapid advances in computing power, autonomous systems, data storage, and analytics. These tools are double-edged weapons, offering possible advantages to the U.S. while also opening the door to increased adversary capabilities.

Speech by US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Singapore, June 04, 2016, at 2016 IISS Shangri-La Dialogue Miracle after miracle has occurred here: Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Southeast Asia rose and prospered, and now, China and India and others are rising and prospering.

WHAT are some of the ways the U.S. and other countries could defend maritime assets against swarms of Sea-Air drones? Consider a convoy system with human centered technology, algorithms from nature, and elements of gaming.

PRESENTATIONS for Asia-Pacific’s leading forum on submarine matters – the Submarine Institute of Australia’s (SIA) eighth biennial conference – are now being invited. National...