Britain’s Arctic blind spot
By Nima Khorrami*
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the High North has become a primary theatre of strategic competition. This is a shift that...
India’s navy of neighbours
An Indian warship sailed from Mumbai last month as part of an operation dubbed Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar. On board, in addition to...
Cleaning up the fishing rules
By Schoni Song*
The next contest over maritime order will not be decided only by warships, coast guards or diplomatic communiqués. It will also be...
NZ at crossroads on frigate replacement
The Royal New Zealand Navy is standing at a crossroads. Its two current frigates, HMNZS Te Kaha and HMNZS Te Mana, have served the...
Naval defence without AUKUS Pillar I
By Michael Keating and Jon Stanford*
Back in 2021, the then prime minister, Scott Morrison announced the AUKUS agreement with the then American president and...
Budget shows spending brought forward
The 2025-26 Defence budget was supposed to come in at $58.9 billion but it actually came in at $63.2 billion, around $4 billion higher...
Vietnam’s Spratly Island overhaul continues
Vietnam continues to expand the size and scope of its Spratly Island outposts, maintaining the pace of island building seen over the past several...
Sea control is not enough
Commander Jeff Vandenengel has written the most rigorous analysis of the Navy’s strategic concept since Samuel Huntington. His diagnosis is correct, his framework is...
The wrong ships for the wrong job
The United States is not winning the Iran war. It is not going to win it. I have been making that argument since the...
Tanker sailor’s terror in Gulf
The blast tore through the engine room of the tanker MKD Vyom without warning on the morning of 1 March. “There were immense shock...