Philippines’ new South China Sea strategy
By Xiaobo Liu and Sophie Wushuang Yi*
When China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Philippine counterpart Tess Lazaro on the sidelines of an ASEAN gathering...
A wider role for the US Coast Guard
By Bruce Stubbs
I. Introduction
The United States should designate the U.S. Coast Guard as its lead agency for maritime security in the Western Hemisphere. In...
The Execution of Captain Charles Fryatt: Why It Still Matters
By Clive Williams*
On 27 July 1916, British merchant seaman Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt faced a German naval firing squad near Bruges in German-occupied Belgium....
Securing the undersea frontier
The United Kingdom’s (UK) macroeconomic stability is directly tied to the security of vulnerable seabed cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic and North...
Performance is not endurance
By Captains Al Collins and Kevin Eyer*
Recent naval operations in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz have demonstrated that the United States...
Can ASEAN use 2016 South China Sea ruling
By Maxine Nazaree Co*
As maritime coercion in the South China Sea becomes ever more routine, Southeast Asian governments have focused on managing tensions while...
Taiwan: a cause worth losing for
By Josh Richards and Joseph Hanacek
By Josh Richards and Joseph Hanacek*
Foreign policy debates are often framed around a single question: what causes are worth...
Iran trumps US, threatens law treaty
By Crispin Hull
US President Donald Trump’s innate inability to empathise with others and lack of intelligence to foresee consequences are likely to hand Iran...
2026 Defence Industry Development Strategy
The Commonwealth Government has released the 2026 Defence Industry Development Strategy. Building on the 2026 National Defence Strategy and Integrated investment Program, the Defence...
The unravelling of maritime order
The Strait of Hormuz is somewhat back open. Tankers are seemingly creeping through, their transponders blinking again for the first time since late February,...