Learn from past to defence now
By Kim Beazley*
The independent heads of Australia’s defence strategic review, Stephen Smith and Angus Houston, have a tough task on their hands. It’s the first...
US ship-building plans
On 7 October the US Congressional Research Service released a report on the US Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans. This comprehensive 96 page...
Defence Review: tangled strategic logics
By Lesley Seebeck*
The rapidly changing strategic environment is prompting reassessments of Australia’s defence posture and capability. Rather than simply reviewing equipment purchases and stepping up...
$100m drug haul in Gulf of Oman
A U.S. Navy destroyer and a Coast Guard cutter operating in the Gulf of Oman seized close to $100 million worth of hashish and...
The revival of Silent Echo
The U.S Navy is the most advanced in the world today, but our weaknesses in the electromagnetic spectrum bear considering, Zachary Hoyt writes in the...
China uses car ferries to take assault craft
The Chinese military held a major exercise to prove how the People’s Liberation Army Navy could use large civilian ferries to launch a massive...
Amphibious base exemplifies review’s tasks
By John Coyne*
The terms of reference for the defence strategic review provided by the government to the independent leads are just short of two...
US submarine strategy’s responsive moves
The US is designing its SSN(X) next-generation nuclear attack submarine in a significant shift from procuring Virginia class SSNs to a new class by...
US pushes faster Aussie N-sub plan
Australia will engage with US plans to accelerate the construction of AUKUS nuclear submarines, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as Tony Abbott calls for...
Thucydides’ Trap from the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific?
In the third episode of the ANI’s flag ship podcast the Saltwater Strategists, ANI Council Board Member Simon Walstrom talks to US Navy RADM...