Australia’s N-subs and the NPT
By Anastasia Kapetas*
When the AUKUS deal was announced in September, it generated immediate concern from nuclear watchdogs that the pact — which aims to...
Admiral Linda Fagan is 27th Commandant of the US Coast Guard
Admiral Linda Fagan became the 27th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard on 1 June. She is the first woman to lead a branch...
ADF move on autonomous weapons
The Australian Defence Force has partnered with global tech company Anduril to design and develop extra-large autonomous undersea vehicles (XLAUVs).
Under the co-funded arrangement, Defence scientists, Navy...
Quad’s plan against ‘black ships’
By Philip Citowicki*
At the first in-person leaders’ summit of the Quad in Washington in September last year, the four member countries came forward with...
Russia fires missile at Lviv from sub
Russia fired long-range missiles at Lviv on Sunday, hitting Ukraine’s international military training center in strikes that were likely fired from one or more...
Nato: Sweden and Finland welcome
The welcome message from Joint Force Command Norfolk is clear: Sweden and Finland will make the alliance stronger. Being rapidly pushed into NATO by Russia’s...
US Navy’s greater Arctic role
The US Navy is ramping up its logistics capabilities in the High North and Arctic to better equip ships, submarines, aircraft and expeditionary forces...
US Navy and climate change
The Department of the Navy has released its strategy for how it will deal with climate change and proceed toward the government’s goal of...
Dealing with blockade of Ukraine
By James Stavridis*
When I was operations officer on an Aegis guided-missile destroyer in the late 1980s, we were given a mission in the Arabian...
Venture capital model for US unmanned fleet
The U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Task Force spent its first nine months developing a venture capital model for selecting promising technologies and is now beginning...