A real way to talk about defending Australia
Hugh White’s new book, How to Defend Australia, recommends Australia double defence spending and consider nuclear weapons. Both are highly problematic, as is Australia’s insular and...
Japan Coast Guard’s first South China Sea drill
The Japan Coast Guard and the Maritime Self-Defense Force conducted their first joint drill in the South China Sea on June 26, in a...
Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific
By David Scott*
From March to June 2019 naval diplomacy and an underlying strategic geometry was on show as India, Australia, France, and Japan deployed...
UK-US relations at post war low
In forcing the ouster of British ambassador to the U.S. Sir Kim Darroch, President Trump sends a clear message: everything is transactional, argues Thomas...
Japan’s Persian Gulf dilemma
By Professor Craig Martin*
The 2015 “reinterpretation” of Japan’s Constitution presents Abe with a new dilemma should the United States request that Japan assist in...
The role of public affairs in US seapower
By LCDR Arlo Abrahamson, USN*
Introduction
The technological innovations of the twenty-first century are transforming mass communications on a global scale. Organizations are competing in a...
Hugh White’s plan for defending Australia simply isn’t viable
By|Michael Shoebridge*
How to defend Australia sets out four strategic objectives for Australian forces: defending the continent, securing the neighbourhood, supporting maritime Southeast Asia and preserving...
Scrap ships, build subs, says Hugh White
By Brendan Nicholson*
Australia must massively reorganise its planned defence structure by selling off most of its surface ships, abandoning those still to be built...
Hugh White: How to Defend Australia
By Hugh White*
You don’t have to be as pessimistic as I am about the future of American power in Asia to start seriously thinking...
Australia must do more than flag-wave in the South China Sea
By Sam Fairall-Lee*
There’s a credibility problem in the South China Sea. When ASEAN states consider China’s commitment to dominating maritime Southeast Asia, its capability and the...