Hirst: captain who put his men first
By Peter Jones*
The recent removal of Captain Brett Crozier from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt over his efforts to get greater action on behalf...
A new risk model for mine counter operations
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By Captain Scott Craig, Royal Australian Navy*
Marine warfare is often the “wicked problem”...
Autonomous systems: warship, torpedo or naval mine?
Naval industries are edging closer to the development of unmanned maritime platforms with lethal autonomous capability—lethal autonomous maritime systems (LAMS). The emergence of LAMS...
Sheean VC case: awards tribunal head takes issue with Minister
The Chair of the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal, Mark Sullivan AO, has taken issue with statements by Defence Minister Senator Linda Reynolds about the...
Anniversary of Bismarck sinking
Under the cover of darkness in the early morning hours of May 19, 1941, the most formidable battleship to have ever been built slipped...
Fixed defence spending or 2% of GDP?
By Marcus Hellyer*
Tuesday 12 May was to have been budget night, until Covid-19 intervened and the government moved the 2020–21 budget release to 6...
US Navy flexing, despite Covid
The Pacific Fleet Submarine Force took the unusual step this month of announcing that all of its forward-deployed subs were simultaneously conducting “contingency response...
Japan’s role critical in US-China conflict
By Bertil Lintner
When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said last month that the Covid-19 pandemic was the biggest national crisis since World War II,...
China’s belligerence under cover of COVID
By Trinh Le
Around midnight on 2 April, a Vietnamese fishing vessel sank in the disputed waters in the South China Sea after allegedly being rammed by...
N-subs and balance of power in Indo-Pacific
By James Goldrick
The maritime strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific is changing rapidly. The future of undersea nuclear deterrent forces has strategic, operational and force...