Geography influences the strategic choices of all countries, but Vietnam is an interesting case of a “swing” state in comparative grand-strategy terms. The co ..
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The past 20 years have seen the dramatic expansion of many Asian maritime forces, with submarines, aircraft carriers, and missile-armed escorts now featuring in many regi ..
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The Indian Navy formally retired the diesel-electric attack submarine INS Sindhuvijay in a ceremony on Saturday, July 16. The submarine is the second in the Sindhughosh-c ..
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Russian naval assets are very active offshore in support of Moscow’s Ukrainian campaign. NATO has responded with a large-scale deployment of its naval forces. Since the ..
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The major build-up of Russian land forces around Ukraine has received a great deal of media attention, but the accompanying accumulation of warships of the Russian Federa ..
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The Russian Federation Navy (RFN) has three main roles: Deterrence: This involves manning and operating a flotilla of nuclear powered submarines equipped with nuclear war ..
China’s unrelenting efforts to dominate the South China Sea (SCS) and to restrict its use by vessels of other nations has proved to be a catalyst for the upgrading of r ..
In 2007, I was invited by the United Nations to address a regional conference on multilateral cooperation in Pacific Rim ocean governance. The conference was hosted by ..
Argentina’s naval force, the Armada de la Republica Argentina (ARA) has a long and proud history. For many years the ARA vied with the navies of Brazil and Chile for ..
An ex-Indian Navy diesel-electric submarine has been commissioned into service with the Myanmar Navy, making it the latter country’s first ever submarine. The ..