RAN takes five fire trucks to PNG
Five fire trucks are on the way to Papua New Guinea (PNG) on board HMAS Choules after being donated by the Queensland Fire and...
Diego Garcia, the US and rules-based order
By Blake Herzinger*
In remarks delivered at the US State Department in early February, President Joe Biden championed the rule of law as part of...
Soviet naval strategy: a template for China?
By James Goldrick*
In 1976, Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgyevich Gorshkov published his exposition of Soviet maritime strategy under the...
RN in big Mid-East drug swoop
Drugs worth £11m will never reach the streets – or fund terrorist activities – after the Royal Navy swooped on traffickers twice in two...
US Navy seizes weapons off Somalia
The guided-missile destroyer USS Winston Churchill seized thousands of illicit weapons — including AK-47 assault rifles and heavy sniper rifles — from two dhows...
Xi licences coastguard to be wolf warriors
By Michael Shoebridge*
Xi Jinping’s control over the China Coast Guard, together with a new law that authorises the coastguard to use force against foreign...
Does RAN need Tomahawk missiles?
By Marcus Hellyer*
The Department of Defence appears to be in the early stages of identifying a ship-launched land-attack missile for acquisition. The government assessed...
The port operators behind China’s naval expansion
By Charlie Lyons Jones and Raphael Veit*
The Chinese Communist Party’s first leader, Mao Zedong, once said that ‘political power grows out of the barrel...
Obituary: Submarine Museum benefactor Gundula Holbrook
Australia’s submarine community has lost one of its most passionate champions with the passing of Mrs Gundula Holbrook at the grand age of 106,...
Can Biden limit naval Mid-East presence
By David B. Larter*
By the time the crews of the aircraft carrier Nimitz and its escort ships step on the pier in Bremerton, Washington,...