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...
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...
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...
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,...