North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia
By John Coyne
The Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre’s latest report is a series of articles published in The Strategist over the last six months,...
US FoN operation in South China Sea
A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near the disputed Spratly Islands on Saturday, the U.S. Navy said, its second such "freedom of navigation" operation in...
Advantages of shooting landing craft
By Przemyslaw Ziemacki*
Amphibious and transport operations can play a vital role at all levels of war, but landing craft can do much more than...
Better US naval options to deal with China
By Commander Bryan Clark*
China’s coast guard and maritime militia have mounted what essentially is an insurgency in the East and South China Seas for...
Huge N-sub rejoins RN fleet
An impressive nuclear submarine which is capable of generating its own supply of water and oxygen and is almost as long as St Paul’s...
Official silence on Chinese tracking
Defence has cited "operational security reasons" for not discussing an Australian warship's recent encounters with the Chinese military while sailing through international waters claimed...
New Government and submarine program
By Dr John Bruni and CDRE Pat Tyrrell OBE RN (Ret’d)*
Australia made international headlines when it agreed to the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. But,...
A binary submarine culture
By Ryan C. Walker*
During my short tenure as a submariner in the U.S. Navy, from 2014-2019, I observed the friendly rivalry between sailors who...
Ireland decommissions a third of fleet
Three of the Irish Navy’s nine ships – the Le Eithne, Le Orla and Le Ciara – were decommissioned yesterday with a combined service...
HMAS Childers helps stricken vessel
Whilst alongside Norship Dockyard in Cairns, HMAS Childers rendered assistance to a civilian vessel named Experience which suffered an engine failure, the Royal Australian...