Oceania

Here’s What You Need to Remember:  Asking the RAN to fight with great kit but a shallow magazine isn’t a great idea. Sailors will pay in blood and taxpayers will pay...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Boeing’s Airpower Teaming System could be used against valuable targets so heavily defended that an operator dare not use crewed aircraft against them. Boeing didn’t mention...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Bombers aren’t necessarily going to deploy less often or in fewer numbers, the Air Force implied. Rather, they’re simply going to deploy less predictably under...

Two recent foreign policy developments in Canberra are shaping Australia’s 21st-century national security agenda. The first is the AUKUS agreement, which has at its core a deep and strategically courageous...

First, ditch the notion of building in Adelaide. Construction in Australia is the single factor that cripples Australia’s plan to acquire at least eight nuclear-powered submarines. It’s the sole reason...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Every time the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has looked at the path to acquiring nuclear boats we’ve concluded that Australia still needs a new conventional...

At a recent event hosted by the Wilson Center, former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said that Canberra should purchase Los Angeles-class or Trafalgar-class submarines as a stopgap solution while...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only in 1977 was it reintroduced for ceremonial dress, and while it remains in use among Officer Cadets as well as members of the New...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Australia is as well placed as anyone to drive a more energetic search for regional arrangements that will allow even a player as large and...

The announcement in early September of a trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—known as AUKUS—heralds a new global power structure. It is a partnership...

Here’s What You Need to Know: These submarines were developed to operate in varying environments from cool southern oceans to warm, shallow tropical waters. In December 2020, the Royal Australian Navy...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The hat remained in use in the New Zealand military until 1960 When the first New Zealand units arrived on the Gallipoli peninsula during the...