AUKUS ambiguities should be dealt with
By Euan Graham*
Nervous AUKUS-watchers in Australia probably felt a mix of emotions when the defence technologies initiative was raised in public during Prime Minister...
US hints at WA base
Australian officials are preparing for the United States to seek ongoing use of the nation’s biggest naval base as part of the Pentagon’s secretive...
Proposal for Pacific intelligence framework
By Mihai Sora*
Australia should lead the creation of a formal intelligence-sharing framework — a “Pacific Eyes agreement” — initially involving Australia, New Zealand, Papua...
AUKUS through to the next round
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally met US President Donald Trump face-to-face, emerging with assurances that the AUKUS deal will proceed as planned. Trump said...
Diego Garcia as an AUKUS island
By Nathaniel England*
Australia should formally propose to establish a modest rotational presence on Diego Garcia – a UK administered territory, recently transferred under Mauritius...
Trump’s misplaced Taiwan optimism
By Sam Roggeveen*
The Trump-Albanese summit at the White House is over. The Australian media is understandably pre-occupied with what the President said about Australia...
Maritime drug strikes: working? illegal?
By Tom Sharpe*
Since the beginning of last month, the war on drugs in the Caribbean has taken a significant turn. Navies have been involved...
Chinese cutters ram Philippine fishing vessel
Chinese cutters rammed and water cannoned two Philippine fishery vessels near Sandy Cay and Thitu Island over the weekend in the latest spat between...
Russian flotilla in South China Sea
A Russian naval flotilla arrived this week in the hotly contested South ChinaSea, where several countries—including Moscow's quasi-ally China—have overlapping territorial claims, Newsweek reports.
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What’s with Russia’s crippled submarine
By Tom Sharpe*
A Russian diesel-electric submarine is currently on a surface transit of the North Sea being escorted by the Dutch Navy. The Novorossiysk is...