US-Australia to do large-scale exercise despite Covid
The United States and Australia will hold a large-scale, multinational military exercise in Australia this (southern winter) this summer despite the challenges of the...
China gives coastguard open-fire orders
China has passed a law that for the first time explicitly allows its coastguard to fire on foreign vessels, a move that could make...
Australia’s Pacific step-up and the Quad
By Eerishika Pankaj*
The growing synergy among the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue powers of Australia, Japan, the United States and India has provided a crucial impetus...
China’s use of Soviet naval strategy
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...
An APS reserve could save defence costs
By Marcus Hellyer*
Last month, I looked at Defence’s growing external workforce, in particular its 6,500 or so contractors, who provide ‘skills that would normally...
US declassifies Indo-Pacific strategy
By Rory Medcalf*
The US government has just declassified one of its most sensitive national security documents—its 2018 strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific, which was...
More FONOPs for US Navy
The U.S. Navy has for years now sent warships through the South China Sea, past military outposts erected by the Chinese military on what...
Index shows Australian maritime weaknesses
By Jay Benson*
Stable Seas recently released its third annual Maritime Security Index with one very important addition. This time, the geographic scope was expanded...
US should station a new First Fleet on our northern coast
By Salvatore Babones*
With China on the march and incoming US president Joe Biden pledging to work with allies to counter it, no American ally...
Resetting Northern Australia’s national security posture
John Coyne's report highlights the vast economic opportunities in northern Australia and how they can contribute to our national security.
The author makes the case...