Canadian warship rearmed in Broome
The Australian Defence Force has rearmed the Royal Canadian Navy Halifax-class frigate, HMCS Vancouver, during the first rearmament of its kind to occur in...
NZ Navy ship aground, afire and sunk
The actions of the commander of the now-sunk HMNZS Manawanui have been credited with saving lives during a nighttime evacuation in heavy seas and...
Taiwan is the main game for Australia
By Paul Dibb*
Other than the Middle East, the world faces the possibility of two major wars escalating in Europe and East Asia, over Ukraine...
UK gives up Chagos sovereignty, keeps base
The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more...
New complexity in naval operations
By James Wirtz*
As great power competition becomes an increasingly grim reality, senior officers are coming to terms with the end of a globally permissive,...
New Chief of Royal NZ Navy
On September 9 the Royal New Zealand Navy celebrated the appointment of Rear Admiral Garin Golding as Chief of Navy with a ceremony at...
Importance of debate over AUKUS
By Nishank Motwani*
The Australian government needs to lead the narrative on AUKUS. If it doesn’t, others will.
More and better-informed discussion about AUKUS is a...
China looming over tiny Palau’s economy
By Jessica Caterson*
Palau is finding itself increasingly entangled in China’s economic web—in many cases, it seems, because Beijing is controlling investment and business links...
Indian warships visit Iran
On 2 October ships of the Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron arrived in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas as part of training cruise...
Latest Taigei Class sub launched
A day after the British submarine Agamemnon was launched, the fifth Taigei class submarine for the Japanese Maritime Defence Force was named and launched...