New US Navy anti-Russian taskforce
The US Navy has created a new task group on the East Coast to ensure it has ready destroyers that can deploy on short...
US Navy sets 2022 priorities
The U.S. Navy will prioritize readiness and sustainment in this new fiscal year, the acting Navy acquisition chief told Defense News.
Fiscal 2022 is starting...
Subs: Australia in new strategic league
By Ron Huisken*
In a world largely inured to shocks, the announcement that Australia, in partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom, would...
Defence campaign needs policy to back it up
By Nicholas Stuart
If you want to know why Labor won't - perhaps doesn't deserve - to win the coming election, look no further than...
Agreement without a strategy
So we’ve gone all in. The trend lines have been there for a while, but as severalcommentators have pointed out already, the awkwardly named...
US to update naval strategy
An ongoing Global Posture Review and a 2022 update to the National Defense Strategy will provide the U.S. Navy more clarity on what its...
Why the US is preparing undersea
As Russia and China bolster their own submarine fleets and capabilities, the U.S. Navy has renewed its focus on undersea threats and has labeled...
Afghanistan: now it’s the Navy’s turn
By Paul McLeary of Politico
The American military’s involvement in Afghanistan could soon become largely the Navy’s responsibility, an ironic twist for a counterterrorism mission...
Sea trade: concentrating on the essentials
By James Goldrick*
Tom Shugart’s Lowy Institute analysis of the rising maritime capabilities of China’s armed forces presents a bleak prospect for the imbalance between...
Defending Australia’s trade. Crucial question
By Hugh White*
Thomas Shugart’s excellent Lowy analysis Australia and the growing reach of China’s military is by far the best thing I’ve read on...