Australia

DoD officials unveiled optimistic progress in security and deterrence capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region amid China’s growing aggression.

In the annals of Australian foreign policy, it is arguable that no moment in history has been as significant as December 21 1972.

As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on our usual way of life, the language of war proliferates. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called it the “the battle that all Australians are enlisted in as we fight this virus”. French President Emmanuel Macron has declared: “We are at war”; and US President Donald Trump is calling himself the “wartime president”.

In the years following World War II, the cost of war was a major topic of discussion. The United States and its allies had spent billions of dollars on the war effort, and there was a lot of debate about how to pay for it all.

After the HIMARS sale proposal was approved, a Lockheed Martin executive said that Australia is looking to produce munitions domestically. 

After controversies surrounding the billion-dollar spy drone surfaced, Australia’s Defense Ministry said it would review its Camcopters deal

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st class Christian Mondeau, and Senior Airman Danelle Tubania, 154th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs, perform preflight checks on an F-22 Raptor.

A couple of days ago, satellite imagery of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) featured an unprecedented number of B-2 fleet.

US General Mark Milley supports Australia’s claims and Ratner’s comments. Though they’re not looking to have a confrontation, all these acts from China “seems to imply that they want to bully or dominate.”

“We’ve seen an alarming increase in the number of unsafe aerial intercepts and confrontations at sea by PLA aircraft and vessels,” U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd Austin said. He added that the occurrence made by the Chinese side “should worry us all.”

British and Australian commandos have fought alongside their American allies for decades.

Recent news is that Japan is going to convert its two Izumo class helicopter carriers into aircraft carriers. This follows on the U.S Marines landing an F-35B VERTOL on the deck of an Izumo class carrier. It’s been about 70 years since a fixed-wing aircraft landed on one of Japan’s naval vessels. Here in the […]