Sea state The commander of the coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, Brett Crozier, has been relieved of his post. Crozier wrote a letter to naval command asking for stronger measures to counter the outbreak …
In this pandemic, every nation’s leaders and institutions are rightly focused on ensuring the wellbeing of their own populations. Despite this introspection, Australia cannot achieve that result without cooperation with its regional and broader international …
Over the past week, Covid-19 has upended our traditional assumptions about how we work and what services are critical, and has shone a spotlight on the importance of communication networks. Nationally, our concept of what …
Every year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies publishes a thorough assessment of the capabilities and defence economics of militaries around the globe. The 2020 edition of The military balance covers 171 countries and provides …
Sea state Naval Group has engaged Australia-based PMB Defence and Greece-based Systems Sunlight to develop the main storage batteries for the Royal Australian Navy’s future submarines. The batteries will power the fleet of 12 boats …
Globalisation was ill. Coronavirus is killing both it and Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’. That’s big news for Australia’s economy and security. Globalisation led people to believe that companies could build supply chains wherever there was …
The Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis recently released a thought-provoking assessment of the US Navy’s plan for its surface forces. Taking back the seas: transforming the US surface fleet for decision-centric warfare is …
By any reasonable standard, Australia is a long way away from most other countries. Sydney is closer to the South Pole than it is to Singapore. Direct flights from Washington or Brussels to Canberra remain …
It was an image that launched a thousand angry tweets. On 7 February, Singapore’s government raised its coronavirus threat level to ‘orange’ (the second highest) after four people with no links to previous cases were …
The beat Artificial intelligence used to fight financial crime British company Quantexta has been using artificial intelligence to predict financial crime before it occurs. It uses data and AI to provide clients with their customers’ …
The outbreak of a new coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, has shown that we haven’t learned enough from the 2003 SARS epidemic. China continues to struggle with transparency, and, in the absence of data, the international community …
It’s time for the Royal Australian Navy to break out of a 20th-century force design mindset and embrace the robotic revolution at sea. As part of the debate surrounding the Pacific 2019 and Sea Power …