The F-35 and future submarines are smart choices that need better explaining
By Peter Jennings*t
Columnist Robert Gottliebsen’s frequent articles about the supposed deficiencies of our future combat aircraft and submarines and the implication that this has...
Does Australia need a merchant shipping fleet?
By Sam Bateman*
If elected to government, the Labor Party says it will enhance Australia’s economic sovereignty and national security by creating a strategic merchant shipping fleet....
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second War
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second War. By Allen Packwood. Frontline Books, Barnsley, 2018.
Reviewed by Tim Coyle
IT is generally accepted...
Victory Without Peace
Victory Without Peace: The United States Navy in European Waters 1919-1924.By William N. Still Jr. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2018
Reviewed by David Hobbs
'VICTORY WITHOUT...
Illegal Fishing and Australian Security
By Jade Lindley , Sarah Percy and Erika Techera
Illegal fishing is increasingly recognised as an ecological catastrophe. However, framing it as a resource-based issue...
The F-35 at sea – not quite déjà vu
By Sam Fairall-Lee
The recent revisiting of the arguments around taking the F-35 to sea cast my mind back to the bitter carrier debate of the 1970s...
How to build a 355-ship navy today
“It shall be the policy of the United States to have available, as soon as practicable, not fewer than 355 battle force ships.” -Section...
India’s submarine rivalry with China in the second nuclear age
By Ramesh Thakur
There are substantially fewer nuclear weapons today than at the height of the Cold War. Yet the overall risks of nuclear war—by...
The looming Taiwan crisis
By Richard N. Haass
Much of lasting significance happened in 1979. There was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iran’s Islamic revolution, which brought to...
Defending Taiwan: the deterrent effect of uncertainty
By Rod Lyon and Michael Shoebridge
The recent debate between Paul Dibb and Hugh Whitee over how Australia ought to respond to an unprovoked Chinese attack on the island...