In a sea of massive egos of the Douglas MacArthur and William “Bull” Halsey type, Clifton “Ziggy” Sprague stood out as someone who shied away from personal ..
This is a very important book that should be read and studied by all defence planners, politicians and, of course, naval officers. Since World War II naval mines or sea ..
Commentary on equipping the Australian Defence Force tends to focus on high-end combat capabilities such as frigates, fighter aircraft and armoured vehicles. Much less is ..
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) formally welcomed HMAS Sydney, its newest air warfare destroyer, into the fleet on Monday, May 18. The commissioning ceremony off the ..
Amid rapid geopolitical change at the start of the 2020s, unfolding now in the Covid-19 crisis, nuclear weapons manifest grim continuity with the previous century. ..
The Australian Government will invest around AU$350 million (US$226 million) for the build program of six new Cape-class patrol boats for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). ..
In October 2019, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds announced that, “Defence is working through a re-assessment of the strategic underpinnings of the 2016 Defence ..
It surely won’t last forever, but the scars from this contagion upon the maritime world seem likely to persist. They don’t like to admit that their forecasts ..
In the first part of this series, we saw that by late 2015, before Australia’s Defence Department had received industry responses in the competitive evaluation ..
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