Japanese carrier to take F-35Bs
Short takeoff and vertical-landing F-35B stealth jets from the U.S. Marine Corps are poised to go aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, or JMSDF,...
In defence of AUKUS
By Oriana Skylar Mastro and Zack Cooper*
When Barack Obama announced the rebalance to Asia in 2011, he also revealed the rotational deployment of US...
UK merchant navy officers train with RN
Thirty Merchant Navy officers will sail around the world with the Royal Navy this winter in a new link-up between the two, the Royal...
US ‘sleepwalking’ to war with China
By Joseph S. Nye Jr*
As US President Joe Biden’s administration implements its strategy of great-power competition with China, analysts seek historical metaphors to explain...
Australian industry and Australian N-subs
By Brent Clark*
The Morrison Government fundamentally changed the approach to Australia’s submarine acquisition with the announcement that the Government would be terminating the Naval...
US submarine strikes object while submerged
The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on the afternoon of Oct. 2, while operating in international waters...
Will all submarines be visible and obsolete by 2040?
Australia’s proposed nuclear-powered submarines could be obsolete by the time they hit the water in the 2040s due to new technologies making underwater vessels...
Small-place fights and big wars
The relationship between conquest and conflict may seem straightforward: start a war, prevail on the battlefield, take control of desired territory, Dan Altman write...
Subs: Australia in new strategic league
By Ron Huisken*
In a world largely inured to shocks, the announcement that Australia, in partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom, would...
Big impact on AU-EU relations
Australia’s decision to terminate a A$90 billion defence contract with France to forge a new defence alliance with the US and UK was a...