By Jeff G. Gilmour, 27 April 2024 In 2010, with great fanfare, the federal government in Canada announced the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) that was intended to strengthen this country’s […]
By Brian Bertosa, 25 March 2023 In her Broadsides post with the enjoyable title of “AUKUS Awkward?” (21 March 2023), Dr. Griffiths points out that some people are concerned that […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 21 March 2023 The announcement of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement in September 2021 caught a lot of people by surprise. It was a surprise […]
By David Dunlop, 13 February 2023 It appears that Australia’s AUKUS submarine decision will be coming in March 2023 and it may not be anything that most expect. It was […]
Dr. Andrea Charron, 8 October 2021 There has been much in the news about the AUKUS submarine deal and the suggestion that Canada was or was not “left” out. It […]
By David Dunlop, 20 September 2021 The French government has immediately recalled their Ambassadors to the US and Australia amid the Australian government’s decision to cancel the DCNS Barracuda Block […]
By Brian Bertosa, 19 September 2021 It is said that an unlikely personal friendship between Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN, widely regarded as the person most responsible (in the […]
By David Dunlop, 16 September 2021 Australia has now done an about-face and scrapped the 12 boat French DCNS Barracuda Block 1A submarine deal. The French/Naval Group naturally are livid […]