Russian help for Chinese warships?
A REPORT published by a Russian military news website on March 1 suggests that China's most advanced frigate, the Type 054 multirole warship along...
Tenders for 21 Australian patrol boats
IN A first, small step to save the (Australian) naval shipbuilding industry, the Abbott government has called for tenders to build 21 patrol boats...
ANI Annual General Meeting 2015
THE Annual General Meeting of the Australian Naval Institute will be held on Tuesday 31 March 2015 in the R1 Theatrette, Russell Offices, Russell...
Clyde naval base’s spike in nuclear incidents
THERE has been a sharp rise in the number of 'nuclear safety events' at the Clyde naval base in Scotland, with official records showing...
Clausewitz and Corbett are now too much
By Steven Wills
Carl von Clausewitz
THE 20th century American strategist Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie said, “I believe deeply that strategy is everyone’s business.”1 The expansion...
Potential for Panshih: Taiwan’s expanding maritime role
Perhaps the most interesting development for maritime affairs in the Asia-Pacific region so far in 2015 is the delivery of the ROCS Panshih, Paul Pryce writes. World naval developments Feb 2015
DISTRIBUTED lethality is part of a much larger movement towards a distributed style of warfare in which every ship and airplane contributes both to the fleet's picture of what is happening and also to its ability to fight, Norman Friedman writes. Opening of new World War I galleries AWM
Welcome address by Dr Brendan Nelson, Director Australian War Memorial
WITH a sense of awkward humility infused with immense pride, we pause here today, to mark a great milestone, not only for the Australian War Memorial – but for Australia. In these First World War Galleries, our nation reveals itself in the men and women whose story it tells. It is who we were and who we are. Thailand plans to build two new cruise liner ports
THAILAND has planned two new cruise liner ports which are to be built in southern Thailand, one in Krabi and the other in Surat...
The thinking professional v the practical officer
On the evening of 26 February 2015 the Center for International Maritime Security held the first annual Forum for Authors and Readers (#CFAR15). The...