Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance in the Western Hemisphere | Center for International Maritime Security

By Bruce Stubbs I. Introduction The United States should designate the U.S. Coast Guard as its lead agency for maritime security in the Western Hemisphere. In military command and control terminology,...

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The Arsenal of Autonomy: Why Taiwan Must Learn from Ukraine’s Drone Defense Before It’s Too Late | Center for International Maritime Security

By Joseph Hanacek and Josh Richards Building the Airborne Asymmetry In the predawn hours of June 1, 2025, a revolution in warfighting unfolded across Russia’s western airfields. Nearly 3,000 miles fro...

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The Insurance Trigger: Sovereign Guarantees and Commercial Lawfare as Deterrence Against a Chinese Quarantine of Taiwan | Center for International Maritime Security

By Meng Kit Tang Markets Close Before Missiles Fire Tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf fell from 138 transits to fewer than eight within days of insurers withdrawing war-risk coverage in 2026. No ship...

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What a Destroyer XO Should Demand from Onboard AI in 2027 | Center for International Maritime Security

By John Babick The Pentagon's artificial intelligence strategy documents promise decision advantage at scale. Defense contractors pitch predictive logistics and machine-speed targeting. The narrative ...

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Vanished Lobsters, Devastated Reefs: The Question of Chemical Fishing in the Caribbean | Center for International Maritime Security

By Dr. David Soud and Dr. Ian Ralby Law enforcement officials are accustomed to interdicting shipments of precursor chemicals used in drug production. The chemicals used for illegal fishing, however, ...

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The Curious Rise of Military Bullshit | Center for International Maritime Security

This article was originally published at The Cove, the Australian Army’s professional military education platform, and is republished with permission. By Benjamin Gray Clarity of purpose is a combat m...

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Polar Primer: Arctic and Antarctic Governance | Center for International Maritime Security

By Jake Brantley As great power competition expands into new domains and climate change alters global geography, the Arctic and Antarctica have become central pieces of the national security conversat...

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Toward a Navy Fatigue Management Program | Center for International Maritime Security

By Dr. John P. Cordle, Captain, USN (Ret). The first week of June 2026 marked a seminal event in the history of sleep and fatigue in the military. The Department of War (DOW) Fatigue Related Managemen...

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Guam’s Logistics Capacity Must Be Increased | Center for International Maritime Security

By Crispinus Lee and Joe Schwartzstein Guam is the westernmost territory of the United States in the Pacific region. The Congressional Research Service notes that Guam is closer to Beijing than Hawaii...

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Performance Is Not Endurance: Sustaining Combat Power in Contested Operations | Center for International Maritime Security

By Captains Al Collins and Kevin Eyer Now…and Then Recent naval operations in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz have demonstrated that the United States Navy remains extraordinarily capable in comb...

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Congress Needs to Fix Navy Posture Statements | Center for International Maritime Security

By Bruce B. Stubbs The Problem Every year the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) submits a posture statement to Congress. It is the Navy’s principal annual self-assessment, the one document in which the ...

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Covert Maritime Intelligence and Russia’s Shadow Fleet | Center for International Maritime Security

By Catherine Marie Abbott Introduction It is widely documented that Russia has leveraged various threat vectors to employ coercive and ancillary irregular tactics against allied nations, including the...

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The Grid is the Arsenal: Power Wars and the New Foundations of Military Strength | Center for International Maritime Security

By Morgan Bazilian and Jahara Matisek Just as oil fueled the mechanized warfare of the 20th century, electricity is becoming the foundational resource for militaries of the 21st century. Echoing First...

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Iran War Series Concludes on CIMSEC | Center for International Maritime Security

By Dmitry Filipoff In the last two weeks, CIMSEC featured writing submitted to our Call for Articles on maritime conflict with Iran.  Authors covered a wide range of topics, including strategic differ...

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The Cost of Abandoning Taiwan: How Appeasement Leads to an Outcome Far Worse Than Defeat | Center for International Maritime Security

By Josh Richards and Joseph Hanacek A Cause Worth Losing For Foreign policy debates are often framed around a single question: what causes are worth fighting for? Far less often do strategists ask the...

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American Naval Mines Can Be Decisive Against Iran | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Commander Ronald E. Swart, United States Navy (Retired) and Scott C. Truver, PhD President Donald J. Trump on March 9, 2026 declared that the United States “will not allow Iran’...

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Convert Merchants into Unmanned Ships to Manage Risk in the Strait of Hormuz | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Alexander Lott, Kristjan Tabri, and Angela Sooba Introduction Reportedly, approximately 20,000 seafarers on board some 2,000 ships, including tankers, bulk carriers, cargo ships...

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The Hormuz Strait Crisis Confirms Nodal Control Will Dominate Maritime Geopolitics | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Ludovico Domini Introduction The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis exposes the inadequacy of some classical geopolitical frameworks. Alfred Thayer Mahan's sea power, centered on blue...

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The Iran War Highlights New Realities and Changing Paradigms | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Paul Viscovich, CDR, USN (Ret.) After four months into the conflict, Iran is defiantly refusing to capitulate. This “four week war” now threatens to become another drawn-out con...

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Chokepoint Hormuz: Epic Fury and Italy’s Mediterranean Strategy | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Rear Adm. Roberto Domini, Italian Navy, (Ret.) Introduction The Strait of Hormuz is arguably the most consequential chokepoint in the global economy. Barely thirty kilometers wi...

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Asymmetric Alliance Strategy: An Israeli Maritime Perspective on the Iran War | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Ehud Eiran The joint military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, 2026, was initially conceived and executed primarily as an air campa...

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Sea Control: 607 Wielding the Trident | Sea Control

Jonathan interviews scholar Andrew Blackley about his new book Wielding the Trident: Admiral Raymond A. Spruance and America’s Victory in the Pacific. The two discuss Spruance’s career and his contrib...

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The Hormuz Closure and the Limits of Sanctions: How Russia Benefited from Iran’s Chokepoint Weapon | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Rustam Taghizade The Strategic Paradox When the Trump administration granted India a 30-day waiver on March 5 to purchase Russian oil, the formal justification was straightforwa...

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The Insurance Chokepoint: War-Risk Pricing as an Instrument of Maritime Coercion | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Bruce Randolph Tizes Most analysis of the U.S.-Iran maritime war will focus on carrier strike group positioning, IRGC small-boat tactics, Marine Corps Stand-in Forces, and the o...

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Hormuz and the Era of Asymmetry: Sea Mines, Unmanned Systems, and the Redefinition of Naval Power | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By Admiral Massimo Vianello (Ret.) and Master Chief Petty Officer Giovanni Giorguli (Ret.) The conflict between Iran and the Israel-United States alliance confirms that conventiona...

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The Price of Doubt: Sea Control in the Strait of Hormuz | Center for International Maritime Security

Iran War Topic Week By James Jackson Operation Epic Fury began on February 28, 2026, with objectives unrelated to commercial shipping: destroy Iran's ballistic missiles and their manufacturing plants,...

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Iran War Series Kicks Off on CIMSEC | Center for International Maritime Security

By Dmitry Filipoff For the next two weeks, CIMSEC will be featuring writing submitted to our Call for Articles on maritime conflict with Iran.  The maritime domain has featured prominently in the Iran...

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China Is Rehearsing More Than Amphibious Landings | Center for International Maritime Security

By Jason Wang, Marvin Bernardo, Pei-Jhen Wu, and Andrew S. Erickson For years, the public debate over a possible Chinese Communist invasion of Taiwan has focused on a single question: Does the People’...

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Sea Control 606: The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises | Sea Control

Host Brian Kerg talks with Jason Wang and Marvin Bernardo to discuss their report, “Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises,” published by the Naval War C...

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Sea Control 605: From Cold War Warriors to Blue Water Ambition | Sea Control

Dr. Michał Piekarski joins the show to discuss his chapter “From Cold War Warriors to Blue Water Ambitions: Evolution of Polish Maritime Strategy in context of NATO Enlargement” which is Included in ...

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