BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of sailors aboard naval ships from around the world are gathering in Boston to mark the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the Star-Spangled Banner — an event that coincides with this year’s Boston Harborfest, a Fourth of July festival showcasing the city’s maritime and colonial heritage. The War […]
BOSTON—Thousands of sailors aboard naval ships from around the world are gathering in Boston to mark the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the Star-Spangled Banner — an event that coincides with this year’s Boston Harborfest, a Fourth of July festival showcasing the city’s maritime and colonial heritage. The War of 1812 marked […]
MARK COLVIN: For the first time, ships from Russia will take part in a major Asia Pacific maritime exercise hosted by the United States Pacific Fleet. Ships, submarines and aircraft from more than 22 nations are taking part. The Royal Australian Navy is sending two frigates and a submarine. But there’s one notable absence – […]
CANBERRA, Australia – A boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia capsized Wednesday and 123 people were rescued from the Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said, less than a week after more than 90 people drowned on a similar journey. Gillard told Parliament that most if not all the people on board had been rescued. […]
DUBAI // Give Somalia the funds and they will eliminate piracy within a year, their interim president has claimed. Speaking today at the second UAE Counter-Piracy Conference in Dubai, the president of Somalia’s transitional federal government Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed called on the international community to spend money arming and organising their naval forces. “These […]
LAWLESS SOMALIA may not be pulling enough weight behind global efforts to curb maritime piracy. Two decades after the fall of its last dictator Siad Berre, it has exported remnants of its strife to the world in the form of modern piracy. Its youth have gone astray with job opportunities drying up and famine killing […]
Thirty Indian fishermen were injured when they were attacked at mid-sea off Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, allegedly by Sri Lankan naval personnel, and their catch was taken away. Fisheries department officials said three Sri Lankan naval boats surrounded the fishermen while they were fishing in mid-sea on Monday night and beat them up, injuring 30 […]
CANBERRA, Australia – A boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia capsized Wednesday and 123 people were rescued from the Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said, less than a week after more than 90 people drowned on a similar journey. Gillard told Parliament that most if not all the people on board had been rescued. […]
Pirates have grown active in the Gulf of Guinea recently, with the area increasingly often used as a place of their concentration. The Gulf has become the second pirate base after Somali. This came in a statement for reporters in Moscow by the Russian Naval Chief Victor Chirkov. He pointed out that the sea brigands […]
Today’s guest is Wayne P. Hughes, Jr., Captain USN (Retired), Profesor Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA You have written that the nation needs a national maritime strategy for the 21st Century. Much longer ago you asserted in both editions of your well-received book, Fleet Tactics, that small missile combatants have great potential to exploit, but […]