Tag: Australia

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 […]

The Commandos that passed the grueling assessment process prioritized certain character traits in themselves and others.

As it happens, New Zealanders are not likely to be kept out of the fray.

A 2018 combined exercise, which flew under many people’s radars, showed how the West could achieve supremacy in the waters near China.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Baker Otter, a combined anti-armor team driver with Ground Combat Element, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, fires 7.62mm rounds at targets downrange during a low-light, live-fire machinegun range at Kangaroo Flats Training Area, Northern Territory, Australia, July 28, 2020. Otter is a native of Seattle. During the training, the Marines […]

This article was written by Alex Hollings and originally published on Sandboxx.com. If war were to break out in the Pacific between China and the United States, the U.S. Navy would find itself in an extremely difficult predicament. While America does maintain the largest and most powerful navy in the world, its security obligations are […]

The Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Hobart (DDG 39), left, the frigate HMAS Arunta (FFH 151), the landing helicopter dock ship HMAS Canberra (L02), the fleet replenishment vessel HMAS Sirius (O 266), the U.S. Navy forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54), the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force […]

The Australian government has announced that it will spend $186 billion over the next decade, in increased defense spending, to strengthen its capabilities. This will amount to a 40 percent increase in its defense budget. This development happened in the context of rising tensions with China in the Indo-Pacific region. The increase in defense spending […]

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jarred Bramlett, a metal worker with Logistics Combat Element, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, practices welding techniques on Robertson Barracks, NT, Australia, July 2, 2020. Marines continue training during the preparation period to improve military occupational specialty proficiency for future MRF-D exercises.

In the worst border fighting in nearly 60 years, Indian and Chinese troops clashed in the hotly disputed Ladakh region located high in the Himalayas. At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the fighting; Chinese casualties are unknown. Both sides accuse the other of violating the “Line of Actual Control” (LAC), the de facto […]

A Royal New Zealand Army soldier gives direction during a mortar shoot as part of exercise Sari Bair. The exercise took place at the Waiouru Military Camp, New Zealand in 2018. The depicted soldier was assigned to the 161 Battery, 16th Field Regiment.