China pips US in number of ships. So what?
Exactly if and when the increasing antagonism between United States and China will boil over into full-on conflict remains anybody’s guess.
But for now, one...
China learning from Falklands War
The Falklands War, a war in South America 39 years ago is still teaching China lessons about how to seize Taiwan, Business Insider's Benjamin Brimelow...
Fishing and China’s maritime militia
This is the second part on CHina's maritime militia. Read Part One here.
By Shuxian Luo and Jonathan G. Panter*
The surge of propaganda notwithstanding, several...
US Navy: threat of eroded deterrence
By Adam Taylor*
Recent remarks by Admiral Phil Davidson, Commander of the Indo-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM), highlights one of the most difficult challenges confronting US naval...
What is a navy for?
By Nicholas A. Lambert*
Speaking to Congress, the Chief of Naval Operations recently argued that the purpose of the U.S. Navy hinged on the timeless...
What should India’s maritime strategy be?
By Abhijit Singh*
An interesting debate has emerged in the pages of The Interpreter involving maritime strategy. Arzan Tarapore wrote an article last month arguing...
2034: imagining the next war
In military time, a dozen years is not a large leap into the future. Most active American ships and aircraft were already deploying 13...
What will Australia do to defend rules-based order?
By Sam Roggeveen*
Australia faces “the biggest foreign and security policy challenge of all: defending ourselves and our interests without the help of the United...
US military seeks extra $27b anti-China money
U.S. military officials have outlined new spending requirements to boost deterrence against China, including new weapons, new construction and closer military-to-military collaboration with America’s...
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...