Brexit might mean more RN presence in SE Asia
By Geoffrey Till*
SYNOPSISAlthough it should not be exaggerated, a persistent British naval presence in Southeast Asia should be expected now that commitments to Iraq...
Critical mass for continuous shipbuilding
By Alastair Cooper*
My previous previous post looked at the greater value for money Australia will derive from the program of continuous warship design and...
Is this the near future of Australian naval shipbuilding?
By Geoff Slocombe*
This is an exciting time for Australian naval shipbuilding. Two patrol vessel programs are underway, the Anzac-class frigate midlife capability assurance program...
Australia and the Taiwan contingency
By Paul Dibb*
Of all the credible contingencies facing Australia in the foreseeable future, the most challenging would undoubtedly be our involvement with the US...
Quad supports US goal to preserve rules-based order
By Derek Grossman*
Following the first meeting in November 2017 of the resurrected Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, the US has been consistent in discussing the...
It’s time to renew Australia’s north as a source of strategic advantage
By Michael Shoebridge*
Australian policymakers’ attitude to the role of northern Australia in the nation’s defence mimics a cicada’s life cycle. For a brief period,...
The defence of undersea infrastructure
By Bill Glenney*
Introduction
Given recent activities by the PLA(N) and the Russian Navy, the matters of seabed warfare and the defense of undersea infrastructure have...
US Navy’s sub hunter autonomously navigates from San Diego to Pearl Harbor and back
US Navy file photo of the Sea Hunter
The US Navy’s Sea Hunter autonomous trimaran became the first ship to successfully autonomously navigate from San Diego...
HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004
The following story about a boarding party from HMAS Adelaide in the Gulf in 2004 was first published in the June 2007 edition of...
Dark harvest of Chinese black ships
By Zhang Hongzhou
A US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies report (Illuminating the South China Sea’s Dark Fishing Fleets) sheds new light on the size and...