US, NZ to fund Cook Islands upgrade
Cook Islands has secured a joint funding pledge of over $100 million from the United States and New Zealand to upgrade the critical lifeline...
US considers foreign ships
The White House and U.S. Navy are considering frigate designs from South Korea, Japan and Turkey for a new class of warships, USNI News...
Japan & Singapore Conduct Exercise Singapan
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) concluded Exercise Singapan, a bilateral naval exercise between the two countries....
From the ANI Archives: The RAN Needs SSNs
Continuing the submarine theme from the last week’s ‘From the ANI Archives’, Headmark 135, published in March 2010, an article by ‘Girgis’ advocating that...
Importance of the human factor
By Eleanor Gaudion and Michael Posey*
American maritime strategy in the South China Sea often starts by counting ships. Planners must keep enough hulls forward...
Moving against Russia in the far north
By Tom Sharpe*
US marine corps missile vehicles landed on Jan Mayen, a remote volcano island in the High North (August 2026)
It is 560 miles...
Indonesia gets Italian carrier
The decommissioned Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi has set sail for its new home in Indonesia as the Southeast Asian country prepares to operate...
AUKUS: abandon case not made out
The following is the executive summary of the submission by Professor John Blaxland* to the non-government AUKUS Public Inquiry.
AUKUS – A Controversial & Consequential...
The AUKUS sovereignty conundrum
Michael Hickey and James Fitzgerald*
Australia must exploit ambiguity in its sovereignty narrative to enable AUKUS. The Garrett Enquiry is energising the Australian public to...
The armyfication of the US Navy
By Eric Lies*
The United States Navy has set a course that will see it morph into an army on the sea. The differentiating factors...