This volume is the proceedings of a workshop held at the Naval Air Station, Nowra on 4 November 1998 concerning the future of maritime aviation, with contributions from both Australian and foreign aviators.
Originally titled Australian Carrier Decisions: Three Descriptive Analyses, this three part study was written between 1977 and 1978 by Dr Anthony Wright, Principal Research Officer in the then Historical, Studies and Information Sect
This volume surveys the development of the navies of the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and Sri Lanka between 1945 and 1996. A number of constant themes emerged from their experience.
This paper aims to understand coercion theory in an international framework, and thus how Australia can combat offensive compellence through influence in the Indo-Pacific.
In his investigation of the historical and political trend of global maritime boundary disputes, Østhagen described how states’ perspectives of maritime ownership and rights have evolved over the past millennia - from the international community h
In the popular imagination, Australia is not a maritime nation. Australians remember the ‘Rats of Tobruk’, but the ‘Scrap Iron Flotilla’ that contested Hitler in the Mediterranean is unknown.
This paper illuminates the inadequacies of the term “military power”.
The security of submarine communications cables (SCCs) is vital to Australia’s strategic and economic interests. Transoceanic information flows for military, government, corporate and private communications rely almost entirely on SCCs.
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has variously been labelled as ‘insecure and instable’, ‘a region that does not inspire confidence in the potential for peaceful governance’, ‘a disaggregated region notable for its lack of homogeneity’ and ‘a trouble