Re-Post: Surface Warfare: Taking the Offensive
Guest article by VADM Thomas S. Rowden, USN from June, 2014. Re-Posted during the SNA National Symposium this week. I am indebted to the leadership of CIMSEC for providing a platform for me and senior...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 10
Welcome back to another edition of the Members’ Roundup. There is an array of contributors featured in this week’s post. Topics range from exoskeletons in the Navy to assessing China’s nuclear arsenal....
View ArticleExperimenting With Multinational Mothership Ops
The following was reported by the German navy blog Marine Forum: “8 January, PIRACY– Anti-Piracy Forces: Sweden is preparing for another mission (M-04) in support of EU operation “Atalanta”, this time...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 11
Welcome back to another edition of the Member Roundup. For those readers who have recently joined CIMSEC, or have just started reading the NextWar blog, this series seeks to promote the works that...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 12
Welcome back to another edition of the Member roundup, where we provide the wider community an opportunity to examine some of the works produced by CIMSECians that have featured elsewhere. Being a...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 13: Herd, defend, distract, attack
Welcome back to another edition of the weekly roundup, where we disseminate the recent blog posts, journal articles, web articles, books, and podcasts that CIMSEC members have published elsewhere. This...
View ArticlePublication Release: A Special Report on PMSCs
CIMSEC is proud to present the first publication in its series of collected analysis – our Compendium to last year’s Private Military Contractor (PMC), focusing on the role of PMCs, also known as...
View ArticleMaritime Security and the Arts
Earlier this year we ran a short series of submissions highlighting fiction’s power to illuminate insights about possible futures. Our colleagues at War on the Rocks and the Atlantic Council run a...
View ArticleScotland, Counter-Insurgency, and Sea Control
This article is part of a series hosted by The Strategy Bridge and CIMSEC, entitled #Shakespeare and Strategy. See all of the entries at the Asides blog of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Thanks to...
View ArticleStumbling on Peace: The exposition of strategic misstep
This article is part of a series hosted by The Strategy Bridge and CIMSEC, entitled #Shakespeare and Strategy. See all of the entries at the Asides blog of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Thanks to...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 14
Welcome back to another edition of the Members’ Roundup where we disseminate the works that CIMSEC members have published elsewhere. This week there is a variety of topics covered by our members and...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 15
Welcome back to another edition of the Members’ Roundup. This week we have a variety of topics covered by CIMSECians around the globe. From developments in anti-ship missiles to land reclamation in the...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 16
Welcome back to another edition of the Members’ Roundup where we disseminate to you, the great work that CIMSECians have had published elsewhere. We have a variety of topics presented this week,...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 17
Welcome back to another edition of the Members’ Roundup, where we share with the rest of the CIMSEC readership the great work that our members have produced elsewhere. From the geopolitical situation...
View ArticleOur Final Kickstarter / Fundraising Update
Four months ago, we concluded our inaugural fundraising campaign. The results too us aback; not only had we exceeded our initial fundraising goal by over 300%, but the support and enthusiasm from our...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 18
Welcome back to another edition of the Roundup! After a brief hiatus we are back to share with you more of our members’ works. There are plenty of articles to share, ranging from maritime...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup Part 19
Welcome back to another edition of the member roundup. We have a variety of topics covered by CIMSECians across the globe this week, ranging from the US Rebalance to the future of US air combat...
View ArticleThe Men Who Shaped A World: Author and Journalist Stephen Kinzer on John...
Back in March, I had the opportunity to listen to a panel at Brown University on civilian-military relations, titled, “In and Out of Uniform: Civilian Military Relations Reconsidered.” The panel was...
View ArticleGeographic Re-balance the Solution to Right-Sizing the Navy
Geographic Re-balance is the best strategy for the U.S. Navy
View ArticleLCS: The Distributed Lethality Flotilla Combatant
The littoral combat ship is an excellent choice to support the U.S. Navy's emerging concept of distributive lethality.
View ArticleOn Books: An Interview with VADM James P. “Phil” Wisecup, USN(ret)
Vice Admiral James Wisecup recently sat down with me to chat about books and how they have shaped him throughout his career. It was a wide-ranging discussion — covering everything from poetry,...
View ArticleJuly Member Round-Up
Welcome to the July 2015 Member Round-Up. Our members have had a very productive month discussing three major security topics; the rise of China, the Iranian Nuclear Deal, and the fight against ISIS. A...
View Article‘Indo-Asia Pacific’ Explained: An Assessment of US Maritime Strategy 2015
CIMSEC content is and always will be free; consider a voluntary monthly donation to offset our operational costs. As always, it is your support and patronage that have allowed us to build this...
View ArticleAugust Member Round-Up
Welcome to the August 2015 Members’ Roundup! Last month CIMSEC members have examined a range of major maritime security issues, including the new U.S. DoD Asia-Pacific maritime strategy, Iranian...
View ArticleSeptember Member Round-Up Part One
Welcome to Part One of the September 2015 Member Round-up, covering the first two weeks of the month. CIMSEC members examined several international maritime security issues, including Russian blue...
View ArticleSeptember Member Round-Up Part Two
Welcome to Part Two of the September 2015 Member Round-Up, covering the last two weeks of the month. In the past two weeks CIMSEC members have analyzed several international maritime security issues,...
View ArticleOctober Member Round-Up Part One
By Sam Cohen Welcome to Part One of the October 2015 Member Round-Up, covering the first two weeks of the month. Over the past two weeks CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime...
View ArticleOctober Member Round-Up Part Two
Welcome to Part Two of the October 2015 Member Round-Up, covering the second two weeks of the month. Over the past two weeks the U.S. freedom of navigation operations (FONOPS) in the South China Sea...
View ArticleNovember Member Round-Up
Welcome to the November 2015 Member Round-Up. Over the past several weeks CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including the modernization of U.S. Naval...
View ArticleComing Soon: Information Dissemination’s Jon Solomon Crossposting Series
By Sally DeBoer CIMSEC is just one of many voices in the discussion of international maritime security and naval affairs. To enrich our content and expand our own horizons, we’ve developed content...
View ArticleDecember Member Round-Up
Welcome to the December 2015 Member Round-Up and happy holidays! CIMSEC members have examined an array of international maritime security issues, including the future of China’s aircraft carrier...
View ArticlePublication Release: Distributed Lethality 2015 Week Compendium
Released January 2016 Distributed Lethality is a concept announced by U.S. Navy leadership in January 2015 to explore the warfighting benefits of dispersing surface combatants. CIMSEC launched a topic...
View ArticleJanuary 2016 Members’ Round-Up Part One
Welcome to part one of the January 2016 members’ round-up! Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including future development programs for the...
View ArticleA Call for an EU Auxiliary Navy – under German Leadership
By Dr. Sebastian Bruns A popular quote reads “A ship in port is safe. But that’s not what ships are made for.” Correspondingly, one could quip “Navies are very good in constabulary tasks. But that’s...
View ArticleFebruary Members’ Roundup Part One
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part one of the February 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including recent Indian Navy...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: February Part Two
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part two of the February 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including a rapid increase in...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: March 2016 Part One
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part one of the March 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including an increase in Russian...
View ArticleAthena Project San Diego Innovation Jam Roundup
This piece was originally published by the Athena Project. It is republished here with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Dave Nobles Wednesday’s Innovation Jam onboard USS ESSEX (LHD 2)...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: April 2016
By Sam Cohen Welcome to the April 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including the strategic implications of China’s...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: May 2016 Part One
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part one of the May 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past two weeks CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including the complexities...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: May 2016 Part Two
By Sam Cohen Welcome to part two of the May 2016 members’ roundup. Over the past two weeks CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including the future role of the...
View ArticleLearning to Innovate
By Philip Cullom Last month, Roger Misso published an article on this site entitled “What Happens to Naval Innovation Deferred?” and this post addresses a number of the points raised in that...
View ArticleThe Problem With Personnel Reform: Who Are the Army’s Best and Brightest?
This piece was originally published by Small Wars Journal and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Robert P. Callahan, Jr. The phrase “best and brightest” is frequently...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: June 2016
By Sam Cohen Welcome to the June 2016 members’ roundup. Throughout June, CIMSEC members examined several international maritime security issues, including increased competition in the undersea...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: July 2016 Part One
By Sam Cohen Welcome to Part One of the July 2016 members’ roundup. Through the first half of July, CIMSEC members examined several international maritime security issues, including the Permanent Court...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: July 2016 Part Two
By Sam Cohen Welcome to Part Two of the July 2016 members’ roundup. Throughout the second part of July, CIMSEC members examined several international maritime security issues including joint Russian...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: August 2016
By Sam Cohen Welcome to the August 2016 members’ roundup. Throughout the month of August, CIMSEC members examined several international maritime security issues, including an increasingly contentious...
View ArticleMembers’ Roundup: September 2016
By Sam Cohen Welcome to the September 2016 members’ roundup. Throughout the month, CIMSEC members examined several international maritime security issues, including the successful testing of Raytheon’s...
View ArticleI Held an Amazon “Flipped” Meeting At My Squadron and Here’s What Happened
By Jared Wilhelm The Innovation Imperative Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson frequently talks about High Velocity Learning (HVL) and Innovation. You can tell his focus on this topic is...
View ArticleA New Administration, A New Maritime Strategy?
By Steve Wills Introduction The incoming Trump administration has called for a 350-ship navy as one of its core defense goals. This number is a good start for adding capability to the U.S. Navy after...
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