This article will analyze these unconventional methods, focusing centrally on China’s evolving systems and strategies, while ...

Sonar Technician 3 rd Class Timothe Sanders was found dead onboard the in-port USS Helena after inadvertently touching an energized 440 Volt electrical panel improperly returned to service following a ...

Figure 2: Representation of the impact of Navy PFB on potential Black Recruits (Mr. Michael Johansson) ...

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From November 11-18, 2024, CIMSEC featured writing submitted in response to our Call for Articles on readiness for Pacific war in 2027. Authors covered a wide variety of topics, including force design ...

The Strait of Hormuz does not need to be made safe to reopen global shipping. It only needs to be made governable. Even as the United States has begun striking selected Iranian military ...

The Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, together with the adjoining Marmara Sea, are known collectively as the Turkish Straits and provide the only access between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. More ...

The following is the first in a five-part series meant to shed light on Hainan Province’s maritime militia. For decades, these irregular forces have been an important element of Chinese maritime force ...

Classification of surface warships as cruisers, destroyers, frigates, or corvettes, has become like pornography. There are no generally accepted definitions, but “I know it when I see it”–except that ...

The United States Navy has set a course that will see it morph into an army on the sea. The differentiating factors between the sea services and its landbound compatriots are fast eroding, diminishing ...

Recent events in the Strait of Hormuz offer a timely reminder that economic warfare at sea rarely resembles the clean, declared naval cordons of the past. Blocking commercial shipping from transiting ...

International attention has focused on the possibilities of an Iranian closure of the Straits of Hormuz, and the catastrophic effect a blockade would likely have on global energy supplies. Even a ...