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'Significant falling out’ between Navy head and Marines chief Defence Secretary rejected attempts to expand role of Marines commandant 2 March 2021 • 9:36pm A Royal Marine of the Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron during Winter Deployment 21 in the Arctic. Credit: PO Phot Si Ethell/Royal Navy There has been a "significant falling out" between the head of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines chief after the latter resisted attempts to expand his role. The Defence Secretary has rejected plans to double-hat the role of Commandant General Royal Marines (CGRM) with another job.  Admiral...

The carrier saw combat and served India well. Key point: This carrier no longer serves New Delhi. However, it did fight in combat and helped India win a war with Pakistan. In the wake of the commissioning of China’s second aircraft carrier, it’s worth remembering that the People’s Republic of China is actually only the third Asian state to operate its own aircraft carrier. The first was Japan, which after a long hiatus following its World War II misadventures, is only just getting back into carrier operations. This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.

When the United Kingdom (UK) releases the highly anticipated integrated review of its foreign, defence, security and development policy in March, it will mark the first formal iteration of the UK’s Indo-Pacific strategy. This brief explores the dynamics that are driving the UK’s tilt to the Indo-Pacific. It identifies three key drivers that are prompting the shift: a reappraisal of China, the economic fallout of Brexit, and the UK’s close ties with the US. It explores the emerging trends in this churn—across security, trade, development, and diplomatic domains—and highlights the opp...

Additional measures must be instituted to combat political and racial extremism in the Navy, Adm. Mike Gilday said in a message to the fleet.

Recent Events Reiterate the Importance of Sophisticated Cybersecurity - FinancialBuzz.com News Commentary NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The recent surge of data breaches, business and agency hacks are just some of the reminders of how fragile our information infrastructure is. According to a report by NPR from December, hackers attached their malware to a software update from SolarWinds, a company based in Austin, Texas. Many federal agencies and thousands of companies worldwide used SolarWinds' Orion software to monitor their computer networks. Now, the cybersecurity company Trustwa...