US should use carrier-based anti-submarine warfare
By Ben DiDonato*
With the return of great power competition, the threat posed by hostile submarines has garnered renewed attention. Russia’s submarine fleet in particular...
AUKUS N-subs have major downside
Any new submarine for defending Australia should be built around our experience. Our needs are idiosyncratic. The Defence Strategic Review should find that Australia’s...
Pacific relations: security, law, fishing and climate
In the shadow of the recent US, Pacific Island Country summit, ANI Councillor Jen Parker sat down with Professor Stuart Kaye, the Director of...
Australia running on near empty
By Ben Stevens is a research intern at ASPI. John Coyne*
For decades, Australians’ faith in globalisation and economic liberalism ensured that discussions about resilience...
Law of Sea and Pacific competition
Saltwater Strategists. Podcast 4
In the shadow of the recent US, Pacific Island Country summit ANI Councillor Jen Parker sat down with Professor Stuart Kaye,...
Learn from past to defence now
By Kim Beazley*
The independent heads of Australia’s defence strategic review, Stephen Smith and Angus Houston, have a tough task on their hands. It’s the first...
US ship-building plans
On 7 October the US Congressional Research Service released a report on the US Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans. This comprehensive 96 page...
Defence Review: tangled strategic logics
By Lesley Seebeck*
The rapidly changing strategic environment is prompting reassessments of Australia’s defence posture and capability. Rather than simply reviewing equipment purchases and stepping up...
$100m drug haul in Gulf of Oman
A U.S. Navy destroyer and a Coast Guard cutter operating in the Gulf of Oman seized close to $100 million worth of hashish and...
The revival of Silent Echo
The U.S Navy is the most advanced in the world today, but our weaknesses in the electromagnetic spectrum bear considering, Zachary Hoyt writes in the...