Cam Ranh port visits in strategic context
By Zachary Abuza and Nguyen Nhat Anh*
ON 2 May, the French amphibious assault ship FS Tonnerre arrived in the Cam Ranh International Port (CRIP)...
India’s new holistic naval approach
Traditionally, security used to be thought of only in terms of the defense of territory within a state system whose defining characteristic was an incessant competition for military superiority with other nation-states, all lying within a classic state of anarchy, devoid of superior or governing authority. Today, however, India and her Navy have swung around to a far more holistic approach. Naval shipbuilding: Australia’s underlying insurance policy
Sam Goldsmith looks at how the national ship-building effort is an underlying insurance policy for Australia. World naval developments – May 2016
By Norman Friedman*
IN MAY, the Chinese continued their program of creating ‘facts on the ground’ by building airstrips and small bases atop the disputed...
The Australian experience of joint and combined operations: Borneo 1945
By Gregory P. Gilbert, Defence Analyst
THE last months of World War II saw Australian-led Allied forces liberate Borneo from Japanese occupation in what is...
News about Chinese naval movements
China plans base station for rescue operations in South China Sea
A Chinese government bureau is planning a base station for an advanced rescue...
The face of naval battle: the Coral Sea
"Our image of the battle in the sky fought from aircraft carriers, reinforced by the film footage so often shown in the media and online, never the face of naval battle for the great majority during the Battle of the Coral Sea. This face is very different. It is even more challenging and even more frightening. It is an experience of confined spaces, of being shut down under armoured hatches and within small compartments." – RADM (ret) James Goldrick at the annual commemoration of the Battle of the Coral Sea Indian naval fleet sails out to South China Sea
IN WHAT may be seen as a major shift in its foreign policy, India has sent four Stealth warships to South China Sea for...
Former U.S. president William Clinton once said that whenever a crisis breaks out, the first question that comes to everyone’s mind would be “Where is the nearest carrier?” Can the same question be pertinently asked? Vietnamese ships denied shelter at Scarborough Shoal by Chinese vessels
Three Vietnamese ships looking for shelter from high winds at the Philippines’ Scarborough Shoal on Tuesday were denied access by Chinese vessels, Vietnam’s search...