RAN officers in US N-sub training
Three Royal Australian Navy (RAN) officers began the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Officer Basic Course (SOBC), known commonly as “Submarine School,” where they will learn...
Coast Guard seeks bigger Pacific role
Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), has been visiting allies in the South Pacific – such as Samoa,...
Naval lessons from Ukraine after two years
In year two of the Ukraine war, the naval domain continued to be a lower-tier area of conflict — and yet, both sides stepped...
Navy’s gangways and bases open for Navy Week
The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, AO, RAN, has opened the Navy’s gangways and bases, proudly launching Navy Week for 2024.
Over the...
Threats: we must not avoid the ‘China’ word
By Alex Bristow*
Writing in The Australian Financial Review on 5 February (republished with permission by ANI), my former ASPI colleague, Jennifer Parker, put an...
What has to be overcome
By Peter Layton*
Australia’s naval surface combatant fleet is in trouble. The eight Anzac frigates are worn out after three decades of Middle Eastern adventures...
Skills shortage threatens expansion
A skills shortage could derail the federal government’s ambitious plan to modernise the navy by building a fleet of frigates and uncrewed drone boats...
It’s corvette time again
By Tom Lewis*
Once again Australia prepares for war, this time with a new class of warship, called light frigates or corvettes. They have just...
Navy gets bigger but is it enough?
By Malcolm Davis*
The Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant review has laid out plans for the Royal Australian Navy to grow larger, with more firepower in...
ANZAC SSN: not so optimal pathway
By Peter Briggs*
Doubts about America’s capacity to build and then sell to Australia a series of Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) under the AUKUS agreement...