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Gen Y and the Barriers to Professional Blogging
Where is the one-stop shop for all things tactical in the United States Navy? Is it held within the hallowed halls of the Navy Warfare Development Command? NWDC aggregates lessons learned, fuses...
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Innovation and Lessons Learned
There have been some interesting posts in the past week or so on spurring naval innovation that are worth the time to read. An article we cross-posted Wednesday, by LCDR Jason Schwarzkopf, dealt with...
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April Analysis
We here at CIMSEC like on occasion to offer our members and readers a topic to focus on for a week or so as a challenge to tease out nuances and new insights. In the past we’ve delved into such...
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Constructive Disruption: The Defense Entrepreneurs Forum
One year ago today, an oft repeated, maligned and admired phrase kicked off a broad dialogue, bringing together a growing, widespread, and once-disparate community of defense innovators. Put simply,...
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April Analysis Week
DDG Flights of Fancy The votes are in and the topic for our April Analysis Week will be ”Alternatives to the DDG Flight...
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From Fighting Piracy to Terrorism, the PMPF Saga Continues
The rise, fall, and rebirth of the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) is a bizarre and thrilling story that I have been following, to the point of obsession, for the last two years. As CIMSEC...
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Our New Partners
The wind farms at Norrmandy, France We here at CIMSEC are always looking for new partners to help keep you abreast of the maritime world from the various bits of the world. You’ll see our...
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A Korean Peninsula Combined Fleet
The ROKS Dokdo and USS George Washington on exercise together. In my previous entry on the U.S.-ROK naval strategy after the OPCON, I argued for a combined fleet whereby the U.S. and ROK Navies,...
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Tools of the Trade
How the U.S. Navy is embracing crowdsourcing and cloud collaboration, what it means to you, and how you can take advantage of the tools Readers of the NextWar blog will recall that in the past I’ve...
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International Shipping Week – 12 AUG
When you’re on a cruise it’s important to check for smuggled MiG parts in your salad before eating. While we often discuss danger to international shipping, we more rarely discuss the dangers arising...
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Welcome to International Maritime Shipping Week
You’re reading this on a screen made in Malaysia, connected to a hard-drive made in Taiwan, supported by a bevy of parts made in China. Sitting here in Bahrain, I’m eating Pistachios grown in...
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A Post-Sequestration Blueprint for a Leaner and Smarter Military
Five months after the much-dreaded sequestration went into effect, many defense analysts and military officials alike are worried about the negative repercussions of the drastic budget cuts on military...
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Taming the East Asian Naval Race
Note: This article was originally published in its original form in the Naval Institute’s blog and was cross-posted by permission. On August 6th,CIMSEC ran a feature on the latest Japanese helicopter...
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The Hunt for Strategic September
Washington is awash in strategic planning. The Strategic Choices Management Review (SCMR) more or less wrapped up by August, but hearings on Capitol Hill continue through this month. The DoD is also...
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The Athena Project – A Roundup of Our Waterfront Event
A little over a week ago, a group of young innovators met in a brewery in Point Loma trying to change the U.S. Navy. We hosted our third installment of The Athena Project at Modern Times Beer that...
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SSBN(X): Sacred Cow for a Reason
This article is part of our “Sacred Cows Week.” In May 2009 President Obama disclosed the inventory of America’s strategic nuclear arsenal: 5,113 weapons. This was done in an attempt to 1) bring...
View ArticleWeekend Reading: 09 Nov 2013
For those who can’t get enough of our sometimes witty, sometimes prescient, sometimes just out-in-left-field writing there’s good news! Now you can spend the weekend reading more from our membership....
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Ears Open, Mouth Shut: How the Navy Should Really Approach Innovation
HT’s aboard USS George Washington construct a method to fill up multiple water jugs during HADR Operations. You cannot force innovation. Especially in the Navy. This truism is continually repeated,...
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Innovation Files: Automated Plan of the Day (autoPOD)
There’s been a big uproar lately about innovation in the Navy throughout message boards and the blogosphere – what is innovation, what it’s not, and what method Big Navy should be taking to jumpstart...
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CRIC Podcast: Fostering a Culture of Innovation
Apropos of the most recent episode of Sea Control, Scott has given me an opportunity to introduce the CNO’s Rapid Innovation Cell (CRIC) podcast to the readers of cimsec.org. The CRIC is an...
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