By David Dunlop, 28 August 2023 A short article by Rob Huebert was published on the 25th of August in The Globe & Mail that forum members may be interested […]
By Jeff Gilmour, 25 May 2023 In the 19th century in the first Opium War, the British established a technological advantage by employing steam-powered gunboats. The Scottish shipbuilder, John Laird, built […]
By Dr. Andrea Charron, 21 October 2022 Headlines on 26 September 2022 repeated a US Coast Guard announcement (USCG). “The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball crew on a routine patrol in […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 4 June 2022 Chinese technology is certain to be watched with interest by many navies, including Canada’s. One development of particular interest is that China recently launched […]
By Mark Sloan, 28 March 2022 Development and employment of an effective Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capability is a technologically challenging and truly all-arms activity, with assets having to be integrated […]
By David Dunlop, 22 January 2022 Here is an interesting article recently published by Asian News Institute (ANI) commenting on the speed of the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) build-up […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 2 December 2021 Both Russia and China have been hard at work developing and now testing hypersonic weapons. They both claim success in their recent tests. […]
For years we’ve watched the frenzied growth of the People’s Liberation Army (Navy). In a time-frame no one expected, the Chinese Navy has overtaken the mighty US Navy in number […]
Dan Middlemiss, 04 September 2020. The US Department of Defense has released its annual report to Congress on the military power of the People’s Republic of China.[1] Some highlights from […]
Mark Sloan, 2 September 2020. The United States and China – DoD Annual Report to Congress Observers regularly provide insight into specific elements of China’s military capabilities, but the 2020 […]
6 November 2018. The news out of Asia is always interesting. But from a naval perspective, it’s particularly interesting. There are multiple states spending huge sums to update their navies, […]
The recent completion by the Dalian shipyard in Liaoning Province, China, of a Type 001A aircraft carrier for the People’s Liberation Army Navy of China, underlines how even massive population […]
China opposes U.S. naval patrols in South China Sea China said on Tuesday it opposed action by other countries under the pretext of freedom of navigation that undermined its sovereignty […]
Dr. Ann Griffiths, 24 November 2016. A few days ago I wrote that China had agreed with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s executive order that certain parts of Scarborough Shoal – […]
Dr. Ann Griffiths, 22 November 2016. It’s interesting to see Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping getting along so well together. The latest example is Duterte issuing […]
Another useful article on the South China Sea dispute. The SCS continues to be a potential hot spot as long as China presses its claims. The issue, as noted before, […]
As Yogi used to say, ‘Deja vu all over again!’ As in the late 1980s, the strategic importance of the Arctic rises to near the top of our national concerns. […]
The South China Sea remains one of the world’s potential trouble spots. As this article explains, China is becoming increasingly isolated in this issue. The question for the rest of […]
Recent reports indicate that the John C. Stennis Strike Group is conducting “routine operations” in the South China Sea. The Strike Group has been shadowed by Chinese PLAN ships. For […]
The following Reuter’s article sheds some welcome light on the complexity of the South China Seas legal regime and the US Navy’s freedom of navigation operations there. This is needed […]
