What is Australia’s grand strategy?
By Lesley Seebeck*
Having a coherent strategy matters. It allows the effective allocation of scarce resources. It provides a framework against which events and trends...
Cooperation key to maritime security
By Jan Stockbruegger and Christian Bueger*
Great power competition with China and Russia dominates debates in Washington. Few analysts therefore paid attention when U.S. Secretary...
Australia already has a submarine capability gap
By Marcus Hellyer*
At Senate estimates hearings on 24 March of this year, the independent Senator Malcolm Roberts bluntly asked Defence Department officials, ‘If the...
US Navy ships enters the Black Sea
A U.S. naval command ship entered the Black Sea on Thursday as part of NATO manoeuvres that drew a warm welcome from Ukraine but...
99yo officer’s service celebrated
Michael Hickie is one of the last surviving submarine commanders who served in World War II. The Narrabeen resident has dived under ice floes...
USS Peary: doomed from the start
Destroyer doomed from the start – the rewritten story of USS Peary’s final combat action in Darwin 1942
By Dr Tom Lewis OAM*
This article was...
A first for unmanned vessels
Task Force 59 integrated MANTAS T-12 unmanned surface vessels with manned U.S. patrol craft and Bahrain Defense Force maritime assets during its New Horizon...
Leaders of sub that ran aground fired
The leaders of a Navy submarine that struck an undersea mountain last month in the South China Sea were fired last week (Nov 2021),...
US report reveals Chinese naval challenge
In an era of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S....
AUKUS: pushing China and Russia closer
By Lyle J. Goldstein*
Washington and other allied capitals have been abuzz with talk of nuclear submarines since the surprise announcement of the new trilateral...