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The 2022 Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation: Mobilization, Maritime Law, and Socio-Economic Warfare
By Olga R. Chiriac On July 31, 2022, Russian Navy Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the approval of the new Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation in a speech given during a pa...
Jewel of the Indo-Pacific: The Quad as a Maritime Security Diamond
By LT Matt Little, U.S. Navy On August 26th, ships, aircraft, and personnel from Australia, India, Japan, and the United States commenced, for the second year in a row, a combined naval exercise ...
Let Me Get this Strait: The Turkish Straits Question Revisited
Chokepoints and Littorals Topic Week By Paul Pryce The Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, together with the adjoining Marmara Sea, are known collectively as the Turkish Straits and provide the onl...
How the Fleet Forgot to Fight, Pt. 6: Strategy and Operations
Read Part 1 on Combat Training. Part 2 on Firepower. Part 3 on Tactics and Doctrine. Read Part 4 on Technical Standards. Read Part 5 on Material Condition and Availability. By Dmitry Filipoff...
Topic Week on Maritime Strategy for Great Power Competition Concludes on CIMSEC
By Dmitry Filipoff Last week CIMSEC featured articles submitted in response to our Call for Articles on Maritime Strategy for Great Power Competition. They covered a broad range of topics includi...
Bow to the Hegemon – Dr. Kori Schake on a Peaceful Transition of Global Power
By Christopher Nelson Recently I had the chance to talk to Dr. Kori Schake about her new book, Safe Passage: From British to American Hegemony. Her book describes the only case of a peaceful hege...
The Navy Needs to Do More Than Rebuild for the Future, It needs to Reinvent Itself
It is time for a Navy-wide campaign to rethink force strategy, design, and culture for competition in a digitized world. By Frank T. Goertner When paradigms change, the world itself changes with...
Sea Control 146 – Former German Navy Chief Lutz Feldt on Defining Maritime Security, Pt. 1
By Cris Lee Join us for the latest episode of Sea Control for a conversation with Vice Admiral Lutz Feldt (ret.), former Commander-in-Chief of the German Fleet and Commander-in-Chief of Naval St...
Reconsidering the American Way of Strategy
CIMSEC is committed to keeping our content FREE FOREVER. Please consider donating to our annual campaign now so we can continue to provide free content. By John T. Kuehn Introduction The ship of ...
Maintaining Maritime Superiority: Real Lessons from a Quasi-War
By Dave Andre In the spring of 1798, the United States found itself in an undeclared naval war with France. Known as the Quasi-War, this eighteenth century “half-war” holds valuable lessons f...
Design Thinking for Military Advantage
In collaboration with U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) and Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC) Introduction The United States Navy has a proud tradition of mission accomplishment, rega...
China: Connected Strategic Themes Across Global Commons Pt. 2
Are there connected Chinese strategic themes that cut across the contested and interlinked global commons (domains) of maritime, space, and cyberspace? If so, what are they and what could the Uni...
China: Connected Strategic Themes Across Contested Global Commons Pt. 1
Are there connected Chinese strategic themes that cut across the contested and interlinked global commons (domains) of maritime, space, and cyberspace? If so, what are they and what could the Uni...
French Maritime Strategic Thought On the Indo-Pacific
Maritime Security Topic Week By David Scott Introduction In Europe, France is distinctive in claiming that its boundaries actually extend outside Europe into the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean,...
Thoughts on Grand Strategy
This article originally featured on The Navalist and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By LT Robert “Jake” Bebber USN and Professor Richard J. Harknett The ...
A Discussion on Grand Strategy and International Order with Barry Posen
By Mina Pollmann Barry Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director of the MIT Security Studies Program, and serves on the Executive Committee of Seminar XXI. Curre...
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China Seizes U.S. Navy Underwater Drone
By Armando J. Heredia On December 15th 2016, the Chinese Navy seized an American unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) operating in international waters off the Western coast of the Philippines. The ...
A 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 a...
Eight Good Questions Strategic Thinkers Should Ask
This article originally featured on The Bridge and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. By Aaron Bazin Strategic thinking can happen almost anywhere: in a conference...
Naval Strategy Returns to Lead the POM
By Steve Wills Introduction Newly appointed U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. gave a signature speech at the Naval War College in Newport, RI in 1981. In his remarks Lehman hailed, “the re...
Management and Process Improvement: The Navy of the 1990s and Today
By Jason Chuma On December 25, 1991, following a year and a half breakup of Soviet states, the flag of the Soviet Union was lowered at the Kremlin for the last time and the flag of the Russian Fe...
Talking Strategy with Richard Bailey Jr., James Forsyth Jr., and Mark Yeisley
By LCDR Christopher D. Nelson, USN U.S. Air War College Professors Richard Bailey Jr., James Forsyth Jr., and Mark Yeisley recently published an eclectic book of essays on strategy. The book, S...
The Baltic Sea and Current German Naval Strategy
The following article is adapted from part of the 2015 Kiel Conference proceedings. By Dr. Sebastian Bruns With the deteriorating relations between the West and Russia in the wake of Crimea’s ...
Members’ 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...
The Concept of ‘Reach’ in Grasping China’s Active Defense Strategy: Part II
This publication was originally featured on Bharat Shakti and is republished with permission. It may be read in its original form here. By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Ret.) ...
The Concept of ‘Reach’ in Grasping China’s Active Defense Strategy: Part I
This publication originally featured on Bharat Shakti and is republished with permission. It may be read in its original form here. The article will be presented in two parts. In this part, the a...
A 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....
Avatar: Shock and Awe-fully Dumb
Written by Matthew Hipple for Movie Re-Fights Week The blockbuster Avatar is not only remarkable for its stunning visuals and brow-beating politics, but for the colossal incompetence of the co...
November 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 ca...
Is Russia’s Maritime Strategy Adrift?
By Ben Hernandez This article originally appeared on The Strategy Bridge. You can read it in its original format here. This article originally featured on CIMSEC on Aug. 20, 2015, and has been u...
The Hohenzollern Chinese Navy? Part Two
The High Seas Fleet and the PLAN: Striking Similarities in Strategy, Force Structure and Deployment The first part of this series examined the nearly identical origins, and dismal, early combat ...
The Hohenzollern Chinese Navy? Part One
Is the Chinese Navy (PLAN) headed down the same dismal path as the Hohenzollern German High Seas Fleet
10 Things You May Have Missed in DoD’s Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy
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‘Indo-Asia Pacific’ Explained: An Assessment of US Maritime Strategy 2015
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OK, Explain Again Just Why the American Taxpayer Should Pay For All This (Series Finale)
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Enter the SCAGTF: Combined Distributed Maritime Ops
By Nicolas di Leonardo SURFACE * CYBER * AIR * GROUND * TASK FORCE “…The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” –Sun Tzu, The Art of War In modern parlance, winn...
Surviving the Fabled Thousand Missile Strike (Part Five)
Surviving the Fabled Thousand Missile Strike Sketch by Jan Musil. Hand drawn on quarter-inch graph paper. Each square equals twenty by twenty feet. This article, the fifth of the series, examines...
Is There a Class of Armored Cruisers in the U.S. Navy’s Future? (Part Four)
Is There a Class of Armored Cruisers in the U.S. Navy’s Future? Sketch by Jan Musil. Hand drawn on quarter-inch graph paper. Each square equals twenty by twenty feet. This article, the fourt...
Chinese Military Strategy Week: The Conclusion
By Dmitry Filipoff The CIMSEC Chinese Military Strategy topic week ran from August 3-7 and featured experts from around the globe and representing various military branches. Through their work we...
The Unnamed Protagonist in China’s Maritime Objectives
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Amanda Conklin China’s ability to exercise its power in the maritime domain is essential to advancing its economic interests and ensuring its se...
Assessing China’s Nuclear Ambitions
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Debalina Ghoshal In May 2015, the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of National Defense released its latest Military Strategy white paper....
Deep Accommodation: The Best Option for Preventing War in the Taiwan Strait
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Eric Gomez History has shown that emerging great powers and established or declining great powers are likely to fight major wars in order to dete...
Beyond the Security Dilemma? De-Escalating Tension in the South China Sea
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Jan Stockbruegger In May 2015 China presented its new Military Strategy white paper. The white paper, which appeared at a time of heightened tensi...
Reviewing Charles Glasers’ “China-U.S. Grand Bargain”
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Peter Marino In May of this year, the PLA released its most expansive defense White Paper ever. Having now firmly left in the past the original mi...
Avoiding Conditions for an Asia-Pacific Cold War
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Jack McKechnie The People’s Republic of China’s new Military Strategy white paper indicating China’s military strategy is a positive step...
Bear, Dragon & Eagle: Russian, Chinese & U.S. Military Strategies
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Chad M. Pillai Last year, I wrote about “The Return of Great Power Politics” and described an emerging multi-polarity and its impact on the gl...
Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: U.S. & Chinese Strategic Views
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Daniel M. Hartnett A Comparison of U.S. and Chinese Views of the International Strategic Environment Within approximately a month of each other th...
The Influence of Han Feizi on China’s Defence Policy
Guest post for Chinese Military Strategy Week by Paul Pryce There is much of concern in China’s Military Strategy white paper released by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense in May 2015. I...
China’s Yuan-class Submarine Visits Karachi: An Assessment
In May 2015, a Chinese Type 041 Yuan-class submarine (pennant number 335) entered the Indian Ocean and made a week-long port call at Karachi, Pakistan. This development caused alarm in India, at ...
Where is the Navy Going To Put Them All? (Part One)
Where is the U.S. Navy Going To Put Them All? Part 1: More Drones Please. Lot’s and Lot’s of Them! Sketch by Jan Musil. Hand drawn on quarter-inch graph paper. Each square equals twenty by tw...
The Coast Guard and Maritime Strategy
By Peter Swartz In Prof. James Holmes’s recent CIMSEC review of CAPT Pete Haynes’s splendid new book on U.S. Navy strategic thinking since the end of the Cold War, he called for bringing the ...
Call for Articles: Chinese Military Strategy Week, 3-7 Aug 15
Week Dates: 3-7 Aug 15 Articles Due: 29 Jul 15 Article Length: 500-1500 Words Submit to: nextwar(at)cimsec(dot)org In a watershed moment, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense recently publish...
John Quincy Adams — The Grand Strategist
Charles N. Edel. Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic. Harvard University Press. 392pp. $29.95. Who knew that John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was so interes...
Members’ 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 s...
Capability and Intent in Developing Strategy
Robert Haddick argues early in his Fire on the Water that: This book will make the case that with respect to China, U.S. policymakers will be wise to focus on China’s projected military capab...
Members’ 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 infra...
A Retired Coastie’s Perspective on the Revised Strategy
AN OVERVIEW: In considering this strategy, it is clearly not a strategy for war; it is a strategy for maintaining the peace, the sometimes violent peace that has become the new norm. As such, it ...
The Coast Guard’s Role in 21st Century Seapower
By David Van Dyk With standing room only and camera crews capturing their footage, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Commandant of the Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford and ...
Airpower-R-US: The Old, New Way of Doing Business?
“Kurdish Forces, Backed by Coalition Airstrikes, Move Toward Mosul” announced a recent headline from the front in the war against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria. As I ...
Members’ 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 sit...