Security: adapting to poly-crisis
The RSL Defence and National Security Committee has just published its Occasional Paper No. 1, by John Blaxland*: Adapting to poly-crisis, a Proposed Australian...
Fractious Collins program revealed
A short book published today by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute charts, in unprecedented and revelatory detail, the troubled relationships between key players on...
Korea stages 21st shipboard debate
On 30 May the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) held the 21st Shipboard Debate on both the large amphibious ship ROKS Dokdo and the...
Navy Training System Centre – West opens
The RAN’s current and future training capability has been greatly increased thanks to the delivery of a new state-of-the-art facility at HMAS Stirling, Rockingham,...
Improve understanding of deterrence
Australia needs urgently to improve its understanding of deterrence so that it can build an effective strategy to respond to future provocation and malicious...
‘Fat Leonard’ convictions quashed
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the felony convictions of five retired military officers who had admitted to accepting bribes from a Malaysian contractor...
Australia should lead on critical minerals
By Kim Beazley*
Australia has the chance to resolve the problems the AUKUS partners and their friends and allies have with critical minerals, particularly with...
BAE leading manager wins McNeil Prize
The 2024 ANI McNeil Prize has been awarded to Craig Lockhart from BAE Systems Australia.
At the Australian Naval Institute’s Annual Dinner on 15 May, the Chief...
The long arc of Australian defence strategy
By Michael Pezzullo*
Kim Beazley was appointed as Minister for Defence on 13 December 1984. He oversaw a revolution in Australian defence, as profoundly important...
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...