At an ASPI conference a few years ago, I remarked that I thought that major surface combatants had been obsolete for many decades, and that the only reason we hadn’t no ..
Author: Andrew Davies
Andrew Davies is senior analyst for defence capability and director of research at ASPI.
In its 50‑page review of the implementation of Australia’s naval shipbuilding program, the Australian National Audit Office managed to avoid using the word "shambles" ..
I've been asked a lot in the past couple of days about the significance of the "missile defence" aspect of Prime Minister Turnbull's announcement about the combat system ..
Australia’s future submarine capability isn’t in a good place. We started the program at least five years too late due to a combination of indifference from successiv ..
This post is adapted from a presentation to the Australian Naval Institute's 2017 Goldrick seminar.
Let me start with something nice and uncontroversial. Su ..
I was interested to see a new approach to submarine procurement pitched by Hugh White and Michael Keating last week. They got quite a bit of media coverage, as tends to b ..
OPINION | Australia: Getting the right frigate AND getting the industry strategy right for making it
The Australian Government is close to deciding which of the three big foreign companies wins the AU$35 billion (US$26 billion) contract to build nine anti-submarine warf ..
My previous post on the future submarines talked about having a Plan B in case the project runs into insurmountable problems. Jon Stanford seconded the need for an insura ..
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