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  • 4 Nov 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • AUKUS
    • Maritime Security

    Beyond AUKUS: The maritime strategy Australia needs

    Jennifer Parker
    Consolidating maritime departments, and coordination across defence, civil and industry is where the wins will be made.
  • 3 Nov 2025
    • South Korea
    • Defence & Security
    • AUKUS
    • Maritime Security
    • United States

    The logic behind South Korea’s nuclear submarine deal

    Seong-Hyon Lee
    South Korea is no longer merely buying American security; it is building in interdependence.
  • 30 Oct 2025
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • International law
    • Pacific Islands

    Sunken ships, rising risks: Pacific shipwrecks and maritime security

    Sheridan Ward
    Securing the region goes well beyond military bases and undersea surveillance.
  • 9 Oct 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Quad

    India’s Rajnath Singh in Canberra: Turning warm words into a shared maritime operating model

    Premesha Saha
    Real-time information sharing and coordinated patrols would deliver tangible benefits to the Indo-Pacific, not just rhetoric.
  • 6 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • Middle East

    How Australia can navigate long-term Red Sea shipping disruptions

    Hamed Zakikhani
    Route volatility is squeezing grain exports and fertiliser imports, and there are no calm waters on the horizon.
  • 1 Oct 2025
    • China
    • Philippines
    • Taiwan
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • United States

    Manila’s lonely island at the centre of Taiwan contingency planning

    Frances Mangosing
    At the Philippines’ northernmost point, troops guard waters that could determine Taiwan’s fate.
  • 24 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Maritime Security

    India’s Ocean: A new report charts Delhi’s maritime direction

    Sanchari Ghosh
    Self-defined as the net security provider in its near seas, India now has a more ambitious agenda.
  • 17 Sep 2025
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • South China Sea

    I spent five days observing a joint military exercise between Australia and the Philippines. Here’s what I learned.

    Danielle Ireland-Piper
    Joint training brings depth to an important bilateral relationship and allows troops to rehearse for what may lie ahead.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • Brunei
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Vietnam
    • Maritime Security
    • South China Sea
    • Technology

    The South China Sea’s next legal frontier: Ships without sailors

    Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga
    Unmanned warships blur legal boundaries as technology outpaces international law in contested maritime zones.
  • 3 Sep 2025
    • Defence & Security
    • AUKUS
    • Maritime Security
    • South China Sea
    • United Kingdom
    • Technology
    • United States

    Beyond submarines: Why AUKUS Pillar II matters now

    Frank A. Rose
    The trilateral security partnership has the potential to deliver meaningful operational advantages within this decade.
  • 21 Aug 2025
    • Maritime Security

    Why maritime surveillance in the Indo-Pacific starts with trust before data

    Pratnashree Basu
    Sharing data can be sensitive, so donors are right to prefer building local maritime capacity.
  • 18 Aug 2025
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Maritime Security

    The Ambalat dispute is a chance for Indonesia and Malaysia to lead by example in Asia-Pacific diplomacy

    Akhmad Hanan
    Against a backdrop of wider regional tensions, finding a solution to this longstanding dispute would be model behaviour.
  • 14 Aug 2025
    • China
    • Philippines
    • Maritime Security
    • United States

    A South China Sea collision brings US-Philippines alliance to the fore

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Beijing again turns aggressive in contested waters but in doing so betrays feeling spooked.
  • 12 Aug 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Sea control, not stockpiles, will secure Australia’s future

    Jennifer Parker
    New Mogami frigates are essential to protecting vital supply chains and trade.
  • 31 Jul 2025
    • China
    • Philippines
    • Maritime Security
    • Review

    Food Delivery: The Filipino documentary film that exposes China

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    China’s efforts to block a Philippine documentary reveal its habit of media censorship and increasing diplomatic overreach.
  • 23 Jul 2025
    • Asia
    • Philippines
    • Singapore
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Japan wants to offload six destroyers, but should the Philippines take them?

    Vincent Kyle Parada
    With Manila’s military modernisation occurring at breakneck speed, the infrastructure struggle will be real.
  • 25 Jun 2025
    • China
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Pacific Islands
    • United States

    China’s South Pacific foothold and how to prevent it

    Henry Yep
    A wargame scenario imagines a United States hemmed in and exposed during a regional conflict. It’s all too real.
  • 10 Jun 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Energy
    • International law
    • United States

    What lies beneath: Trump and the security of subsea cables

    April A. Herlevi
    To access the riches under the sea, the new US administration seeks dominance.
  • 29 May 2025
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Australia-South Korea: The case for a new maritime focus

    Jennifer Parker
    The naval relationship between the two nations has plateaued, but there's a way to regain momentum.
  • 5 May 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Technology

    Undersea cable control: The information dimension

    Richard Dunley
    Historical lessons on how control of undersea communication networks offers advantage beyond mere disruption.
  • 29 Apr 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Terrorism
    • United States

    Kashmir and what’s next after the Pahalgam attack: How India’s partners could help in this crisis

    Arzan Tarapore
    Stepping up overflight surveillance in the Indian Ocean would be a good start.
  • 17 Apr 2025
    • China
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Intelligence and security
    • Maritime Security

    China’s “spy ship” that wasn’t off the coast of Australia

    Jennifer Parker
    Caught in a political storm, most claims about the mission of the Tan Suo Yi Hao don’t hold water.
  • 28 Mar 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • Yemen
    • United States

    Breaking Houthi resolve: Why Trump’s strikes won’t work any better than Biden’s

    Mark O'Neill
    The “whack-a-mole” approach to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea needs a rethink – upstream, rather than down.
  • 25 Mar 2025
    • China
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • AUKUS
    • Maritime Security

    Awful but lawful: China's Australia flotilla

    Thomas Shugart
    China wasn't making a legal point. This was a show of force.
  • 24 Mar 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Indonesia and Australia: Defence cooperation under Prabowo

    Edna C. Pattisina
    For Australia, walking the talk will be critical to a sustainable strategic relationship that benefits both nations.
  • 19 Mar 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Australian defence and the nebulous “archipelago”

    Richard Dunley
    In the region to our north, the risks of playing out operational concepts on a map devoid of politics are manifold.
  • 17 Mar 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade

    The Suez battles forces beyond its control

    Selwyn Parker
    Not only rocket attacks but tariff threats, there is mounting uncertainty in global shipping.
  • 14 Mar 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • International law
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    Sunk costs: Pacific shipwrecks and the urgent call for the Nairobi Convention

    Sheridan Ward
    An international accord to clean up shipwrecks and other waste from commerce on the high seas already exists. The region should get on board.
  • 13 Mar 2025
    • Singapore
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Singapore’s navy modernisation: Big on size but small on personnel

    Rahman Yaacob
    Grappling with the need to overcome constraints on the number of personnel available to crew warships and submarines.
  • 11 Mar 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Quad

    Why Australia–India maritime ties matter

    Nidhi Priya
    Strengthening cooperation in the Indo-Pacific will be good not just for the region but for global security and trade.
  • 6 Mar 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Should Australia rekindle its Merchant Navy?

    Victor Abramowicz
    From defended assets to arsenal ships, armed merchant vessels offer opportunities for Canberra.
  • 6 Sep 2024
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • Iran
    • Yemen

    Iran’s shadow hand in Houthi Red Sea attacks

    Jonathan Campbell-James
    How the Houthis and Iranians work together isn’t absolutely clear – but stopping the threat to shipping requires more than shooting down incoming missiles and extends to disrupting an intelligence and targeting system.
  • 17 Jul 2024
    • China
    • China's Military
    • South China Sea
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Moving beyond the grey zone: The case for ICAD

    Adam Lockyer , Yves-Heng Lim , Courtney J Fung
    Why some Indo-Pacific nations are renaming the place between peace and war.
  • 12 Jul 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Testing the climate for AUKUS

    Albert Palazzo
    The deterrence effects of nuclear-powered submarines are easily overstated, and the boats won’t fulfil Australia’s most pressing security needs in a changing environment.
  • 10 Jul 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Technology

    Cable ties: Defending seabed lines of communication

    Samuel Bashfield
    Underwater vulnerabilities need to be far more prominent in the conversation.
  • 20 Jun 2024
    • China
    • Philippines
    • South China Sea
    • Maritime Security
    • International law

    Overcoming the deliberate legal ambiguity adopted by China’s coast guard

    Peter Leavy
    A new order is telling of Beijing’s selective and ongoing effort to undermine the law of the sea.
  • 19 Apr 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Review

    Girt by sea: Redrawing Australia’s mental map

    David Brewster
    A big part of the challenge is asking the hard questions – and a new book does just that.
  • 11 Apr 2024
    • Asean
    • South China Sea
    • Cyber Security
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Emerging Threats
    • Maritime Security
    • Technology

    ASEAN and the military applications of AI

    Ngô Di Lân
    While artificial intelligence can be used to magnify lethal force, it can also promote regional peace and stability.
  • 5 Apr 2024
    • China
    • China's Military
    • Philippines
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Maritime Security
    • United States
    • US Navy

    What should Australia be doing about the South China Sea?

    Susannah Patton
    While Australia’s interests are clear, its contribution is ambiguous.
  • 2 Apr 2024
    • China
    • Japan
    • Philippines
    • Maritime Security
    • United States

    A wave of US trilaterals sends a clear message to China

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Revamped security groupings led by Washington, including with Manila and Tokyo, are the new normal.
  • 27 Mar 2024
    • China
    • India
    • Maldives
    • Sri Lanka
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Mapping the oceans is the new front in the battle for influence in the Indian Ocean

    David Brewster
    Ruling the waves means first understanding what lies beneath. Enter the geopolitics of hydrography.
  • 26 Mar 2024
    • Japan
    • Maritime Security
    • Pacific Islands

    Should Japan expand its security partnerships in the Pacific?

    Daniel Mandell
    Four reasons why rushing in may not be the answer.
  • 8 Feb 2024
    • Defence & Security
    • Al Qaeda
    • Emerging Threats
    • Islamic State
    • Maritime Security
    • Middle East Conflict
    • Terrorism
    • Technology
    • Middle East
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Lebanon
    • Yemen

    Non-state actors and the phantom of asymmetry

    Ved Shinde
    The might of the US military no longer guarantees world order. There are new actors and new ecosystems in play.
  • 2 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Quad

    A practical way for Australia to help in the western Indian Ocean

    Jennifer Parker
    Expanding the rollout of a Quad maritime domain awareness initiative would be a boost to security – for the region, and Australia.
  • 29 Jan 2024
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Maritime Security
    • Review

    Why big projects fail: Climate change and AUKUS submarines

    Stephen Grenville
    Construction lessons – from the Empire State to the Sydney Opera House – can inform Australia’s most pressing problems.
  • 14 Nov 2023
    • Japan
    • Philippines
    • Maritime Security

    Japan’s new golden age in Southeast Asia

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Tokyo’s recent geopolitical assertiveness cements its position as a regional security and economic powerhouse.
  • 14 Nov 2023
    • Australia
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade

    Australia needs to resource a merchant fleet

    Richard Dunley
    Virtually all Australia’s trade moves by sea, yet relies almost exclusively on foreign flagged and foreign owned vessels.
  • 28 Sep 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Review

    AUKUS: A debate after the fact is still worth having

    Georgina Downer
    Can Australia’s statecraft and alliances offer alternative security options in the Indo-Pacific?
  • 26 Sep 2023
    • Asean
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    ASEAN’s first joint military exercise

    Rahman Yaacob
    A pyrrhic military cooperation or building capability for future contingency?
  • 13 Sep 2023
    • Asia
    • Maritime Security

    Sea robbery in the Singapore Strait

    Thư Nguyễn Hoàng Anh
    A crucial global trade route is subject to a rash of petty crime, but the consequences aren’t so petty.
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