The Oz Pacific policy that can’t be named
By Graeme Dobell*
Australia has a Voldemort problem. Our big new ambition for the South Pacific — economic and security integration — has become the policy that...
Future-proofing the Attack class sub
By Derek Woolner and David Glynne Jones*
In February 1937, the Gloster Gladiator biplane entered service with the Royal Air Force. It was already obsolescent; Hawker Hurricanes began operational service late...
America needs to talk about China
By Minxin Pei*
Of all the changes in US foreign policy that President Donald Trump’s administration has made, the most consequential is the adoption of...
Chinese white paper sheds light, raises questions
By Stephen Kuper, of Defence Connect
The unprecedented economic rise of China has paved the way for its meteoric increase in military capability and...
No free ride in the Pacific
By Walker Mills*
In recent years the Pentagon has doubled down on a Pacific focus. It has published a new Pacific strategy and the individual...
Countering China in South China Sea
By LtCol Roy Draa*
“Free and open access to the South and East China Seas is critical to both regional security and international commerce…Through its...
The South China Sea arbitral award three years later
By Carlyle A. Thayer
We are working on a review of the Arbitral Tribunal’s Award in The Hague three years ago up to the...
South Korea to build LPH
South Korea is to launch a new version of a large-deck landing ship from which short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing aircraft can operate by the late 2020s, amid...
Australian perspective on the Hormuz Straits stand-Off
By ‘Depth Charge’
The piratical seizure of a UK flagged tanker in the Straits of Hormuz last week reveals the price that a maritime nation...
Foam in the ocean: Quad 2.0 at 18 months
By Euan Moyle*
Despite greater unity on the concept of the “free and open Indo-Pacific,” the renewed Quadrilateral Security Dialogue may suffer from many of...