Call for Pacific maritime safety program
By Shaun Cameron*
Southeast Asia’s maritime environment faces threats from piracy, slavery, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. A maritime security program tailored for...
2025 Strategic Policy Grants Program announced
On 8 January Defence announced the opening of the 2025 round Strategic Policy Grants Program (SPGP). This program supports original, independent research and public...
ADV Reliant on a Pacific mission
Australia’s Pacific Support Vessel Australian Defence Vessel (ADV) Reliant has departed Brisbane on its first deployment of 2025. Further enhancing Australia’s partnership with the...
First Australian submariner to earn US Dolphins
On 12 December the US Navy qualified the first RAN officer on a nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine. In a pier-side ceremony, Rear Admiral Chris Cavanaugh,...
Filling the AUKUS comms gap
By Jacqueline Gibson and Cameron Hendrix*
Gaps in AUKUS communication strategies limit public understanding of its benefits and allow malign actors, such as China and Russia,...
Here come the (tougher) Marines
By Andrew Rolander*
The US Marine Corps is dramatically increasing its relevance to the war fighting capability of the United States. As the world lurches...
First woman commands a British aircraft carrier
Captain Claire Thompson OBE RN assumed command of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth on 10 December, becoming the first woman to command a...
Ex Defence chief to review Submarine Agency
Defence Minister Richard Marles has appointed former senior defence and security bureaucrat Dennis Richardson to conduct an urgent top-to-bottom review of the Australian Submarine...
Captain of Prince of Wales speaks up
On a cold, windswept morning, HMS Prince of Wales sat in the dock at Liverpool, its imposing silhouette blending seamlessly into the overcast Mersey...
Excellence in the face of doubt
On 5 Nov 2024 The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond gave an address to the Submarine Institute Conference. The following transcript has...