29 navies at 19th Western Pacific Symposium
The 19th Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) was hosted by Admiral Hu Zhongming, the Commander of the Peoples Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N), in Qingdao during...
Pillar II is making progress
By Tom Corben and Sophie Mayo*
Compared with evident progress on Australia’s future submarine capabilities under Pillar 1, analysts have often decried a lack of...
Strategy: the gap this decade
By Malcolm Davis*
The 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS) reiterates the importance of a strategy of deterrence by denial suggested in the 2023 Defence Strategic...
Export rules relaxed for AUKUS
The United States Department of Commerce has announced that Australia and the United Kingdom are being provided with a national exemption from the Export...
Grand Flinders reburial ceremony
A grand naval ceremony with hundreds of guests from around the world is being planned for the reburial of Lincolnshire explorer Matthew Flinders, the...
FONOPs: persuade not assert
The Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) program run by the US Department of Defense has become a symbol of China-US naval competition and of...
Meeting the asymmetric threat
By Alex Crosby*
According to Julian Corbett, “he object of naval warfare must always be directly or indirectly either to secure the command of the...
Uncrewed: the future of undersea war
Manned submarines could become a thing of the past as undersea warfare hots up and technological developments allow drones to take over, Forces Net...
Applying lessons from aircraft readiness to ships
The U.S. Navy’s supply corps will spend the next two years applying lessons from the service’s aircraft fleet to surface ship readiness.
After a 2018...
Autonomous boart rials in WA a success
The collaborative Patrol Boat Autonomy Trial (PBAT) project has successfully completed the sea acceptance trials (including endurance trials) of the autonomously operated vessel, Sentinel, Australian...