US Navy recruitment challenges
The Navy’s ongoing struggle to meet recruitment missions and the Marine Corps’ growing concerns over the shrinking pool of possible enlistees topped a Senate...
Projected defence spending up 11pc
By David Uren*
The Australian federal budget shows defence will receive a significant increase in funding over the next decade under the new National Defence...
Sea blindness in the ADF
By Nereus*
‘We do not have that sense of the sea and our surroundings which is generally developed in an island people’1
For a country that's...
Admiral Dinesh Tripathi becomes India’s 26th Chief of Naval Staff
Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, PVS assumed command of the Indian Navy on 30 April 2024 as the 26th Chief of the Naval Staff. He...
First female PLA-N carrier pilots
On 29 April 29 it was reported that he first group of female pilot trainees from the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation...
29 navies at 19th Western Pacific Symposium
The 19th Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) was hosted by Admiral Hu Zhongming, the Commander of the Peoples Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N), in Qingdao during...
Inflection point on high seas
By Navy Undersecretary Erik K. Raven*
Our nation is at an inflection point. How we respond to the tremendous challenges and unprecedented opportunities we face...
AUKUS: about strategy not jobs
Australia’s government must provide a more thorough and public explanation of why it has committed to the AUKUS plan to buy nuclear powered submarines...
Pacific island recruitment idea
Working more closely with Pacific island partners could help solve Australia’s military recruitment and retention challenges while also building collective regional security and interoperability,...
Defence senior appointments
On 9 April the Australian Government recommend to His Excellency, the Governor-General, a number of senior command changes within the Australian Defence Force (ADF)....