Cost of defence disaster role
By Peter Jennings*
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s National Press Club address on Wednesday (Feb 2020) foreshadowed a major role for the Australian Defence Force in...
Corvettes tp break RAN mindset
By Michael Davis*
It’s time for the Royal Australian Navy to break out of a 20th-century force design mindset and embrace the robotic revolution at...
More questions on Attack class subs
By Marcus Hellyer*
Two questions are frequently raised about the process that selected Australia’s preferred partner for the design and build of the future submarine.
The...
‘His Warship’: CN’s eulogy of David Leach
The eulogy delivered by the Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Michael Noonan AO.
Vice Admiral David Leach AC, CBE, LVO served as our Chief of...
The Importance of Tradition for the German Armed Forces
The Commanding Officer of the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Armed Forces, Captain (Navy) Dr. Jörg Hillmann, will give...
Admiral David Leach’s funeral
The navy is no stranger to laying on a bit of pomp and ceremony for a military funeral. But the service for Vice-Admiral David...
RAN opens new warfighting agency
The Royal Australian Navy has opened a centralised warfighting agency, designed to enhance Navy’s lethality in times of conflict, Sea Waves reports.
The Maritime Warfare...
Bass Strait oil-rig counter terrorism operations
By Brett Dowsing, Commodore, RAN ret’d
My involvement in the counter-terrorist task initially commenced from mid-1981 to mid 1982 as Commanding Officer of HMAS Buccaneer, an...
US CNO meets chief of RNZN
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday hosted Chief of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) Rear Adm. David Proctor, at the Pentagon...
Doris Miller is name of new US Navy carrier
Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly named a future aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller (CVN 81) during a Martin Luther King,...