Deindustrialisation a threat to Australia
By Joseph Zeller*
Australia needs strategic reindustrialisation. The days of secure supply chains and geopolitical stability have begun to erode, and Australia is without a...
SSN Arkansas christened
The nuclear submarine Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear...
US Coast Guard’s big cash shortfall
A multi-billion shortfall in operation and maintenance coffers is hampering US Coast Guard operations with a steep cliff looming on the horizon, according to...
US destroyers foil Houthi attacks
Between 9-10 December the destroyers USS Stockdale and USS O’Kane successfully defeated a range of Houthi launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden....
Update on US Ford Class aircraft carriers
On 13 December the US Congressional Research Service published the 34 page report “Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for...
Naval exercises in NW Indian Ocean
Warships of the Omani, Pakistani and Spanish navies have conducted exercises in the north-west Indian Ocean.
The warships were the Pakistani Zulfiquar class guided missile...
HMAS Brisbane fires Tomahawk missile
Australia has become only the third country in the world to acquire and fire a Tomahawk cruise missile. HMAS Brisbane fired a Tomahawk missile...
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...
Hybrid warfare in the Baltic
The shallow waters of the Baltic Sea have become a secondary arena of confrontation in the larger standoff between the East and the West....
Warning of runaway sea-level rise
By Isabelle Bond*
Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetime,’ according to a joint emergency statement released...