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Defence Capability Plan

JS Kumano
Defence

After the 2025 Defence Capability Plan – The Next Generation Navy

May 21, 2025

The Defence Capability Plan’s signalling of like-for-like replacement for the Anzac frigates has implications for decisions around the rest of the fleet, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts. […]

HIMARS
Defence

Peter Greener: 2025 Defence Capability Plan is a DCP for the ages

April 24, 2025

Committing $12 billion over the next four years with $9 billion in new spending, the Government seems intent on ensuring the development of significant capabilities for the New Zealand Defence Force, writes Editor-at-large Dr Peter […]

RNZAF Boeing 757
Air

Calling time on the 757s: Strategic Air Mobility Capability procurement expedited

January 10, 2025

New Zealand’s Ministry of Defence has released a tender to market for proposals to replace the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s two Boeing 757s by the end of 2027. According to the 19 December announcement, […]

Hainan ICBM
Defence

Defence Capability Plan: Kicking the can down the road yet again

January 8, 2025

Are the recent actions of the Chinese really the reason for the delay in the Defence Capability Plan, or do the politics of the coalition have a part to play?, asks editor-at-large Dr Peter Greener. […]

Boeing 757
Defence

MAPP: Quantity, Capability, or Both: More investment in Navy needed

July 18, 2024

There can be little doubt that the soon to be released Defence Capability Plan will require substantial new expenditure over the next decade, writes Dr Wayne Mapp. The defence and foreign policy of New Zealand […]

HMAS Perth
Defence

Australian Surface Combatant Review: What bearing could it have on RNZN fleet renewal?

July 11, 2024

The Australian surface combatant review’s recommendations around Tier 2 general purpose frigates pose interesting questions for New Zealand, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts. In a way this […]

Plan ANZAC
Defence

New Zealand Defence Policy and Capability – A Rejoinder

August 1, 2023

Recent commentary suggests that NZDF combat skills and interoperability have degraded over time, but remedial work is now well underway, writes editor-at-large Dr Peter Greener. Nevertheless, there are big capability decisions that need to be […]

Defence Policy Review
Defence

Defence Policy Review: Kicking the can down the road or fundamental reset?

July 12, 2022

With the release last week of the Defence Policy Review Terms of Reference, writes Dr Peter Greener, will we see a Defence White Paper or Capability Plan prior to the next election? In my article […]

RNZAF Hercules
Defence

What direction now for New Zealand Defence Policy and Capability?

June 17, 2022

With no new defence white paper in sight, in a world marked by Russian aggression in Europe and Chinese influence in the Pacific, Dr Peter Greener asks what is the direction for New Zealand defence […]

USAF C-130J
Defence

Does New Zealand spend enough on Defence?

January 27, 2022

Dr Wayne Mapp writes that if New Zealand is to provide its Defence Force with modern platforms capable of interoperability with partners, it will need to maintain defence expenditure at 1.5 percent of GDP over […]

Andrew Bridgman
Defence

The Interview: Andrew Bridgman, Secretary of Defence

October 6, 2021

In this exclusive interview with chief editor Nicholas Dynon, Secretary of Defence Andrew Bridgman talks Defence Assessment, Defence Capability Plan review,  international engagement, and the Ministry’s key priorities in 2021/22. ND: A new Defence Assessment has […]

Babcock Arrowhead 140
Defence

Building New Zealand’s Future Navy: Beyond ‘like for like’ replacement

September 10, 2021

The need to replace half of the RNZN’s fleet by the mid 2030s presents a rare opportunity to move away from simply considering like for like replacements, writes Editor-at-large Peter Greener, and to consider newer […]

Peeni Henare
Defence

The Interview: New Zealand Defence Minister Peeni Henare

May 31, 2021

In this exclusive interview, Defence Minister Peeni Henare talks with Line of Defence Editor-at-Large Dr Peter Greener about future peacekeeping, prioritising spending, the Pacific, and a Labour focus on Defence. PG: Minister, acknowledging the confluence of […]

Secretary of Defence Andrew Bridgman
Defence

Preparing for a Changing Future: An interview with the Secretary of Defence

March 17, 2020

In this exclusive interview with Editor-at-large Dr Peter Greener, Secretary of Defence Andrew Bridgman talks priorities, First Principles Review, maritime helicopter replacement, international engagement and future challenges. PG: Since taking up your post on 1 July […]

HMNZS Canterbury
Defence

Capability questions for the next government

January 9, 2020

Hon Dr Wayne Mapp looks to the past in order to explore the maritime acquisition landscape of the future, focusing on the Offshore Patrol Vessel and Frigate replacement decisions facing the next government. The first […]

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