HMAS Sydney heads for US trials
HMAS Sydney left her home port at Fleet Base East last week to conduct trials on her AEGIS weapons system with the United States Navy,...
The US Navy’s wasted ship-building decade
The U.S. Navy spent a decade in the early 2000s building warships that either don’t work, cost too much to build in large numbers...
Darwin’s role in resurgent Quad
The Quad is back in action. Australia, India, Japan and the US formed the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue in 2007 in the aftermath of the...
Quad’s strategic mountain to climb
By Peter Jennings*
Prime Minister Scott Morrison may be forecasting ‘a new dawn in the Indo-Pacific’ with the arrival of the Quad meeting of Australian,...
RAN explores new submarine repair method
Some of the country’s leading defence specialists are adapting repair technologies to help the Australian Navy operate more effectively, create, an engineering website reports.
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What should India’s maritime strategy be?
By Abhijit Singh*
An interesting debate has emerged in the pages of The Interpreter involving maritime strategy. Arzan Tarapore wrote an article last month arguing...
Russia’s role in the Indian Ocean
By Alexey D. Muraviev*
February this year was marked by a heightened Russian naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Russian naval task groups drawn from...
1st Fleet reactivation still on table
The former Navy secretary's call to reactivate a numbered fleet in the Pacific to counter China's growing maritime power is still under consideration, a...
Australia’s elevated role under Biden Administration
By Alan Dupont*
In a historic geopolitical shift, Australia is emerging as a key alliance hub and partner for the US in Asia as the...
2034: imagining the next war
In military time, a dozen years is not a large leap into the future. Most active American ships and aircraft were already deploying 13...