Sea change

Australia has been given a wake-up call with the arrival of a Chinese naval battlegroup off the Australian coast underlining the power imbalance between the two navies.

The fate of Russia’s navy does not invalidate ours

Ukraine’s sinking of several Russian warships is an impressive achievement, but is part of a long tradition of asymmetric naval warfare and does not render surface combatants obsolete.

Post war lessons for a prewar world

The current defence capability review being undertaken by Stephen Smith and Angus Houston could be informed by a similar exercise at the end of World War Two.