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On The Decline of European Naval Power: A Conversation with Jeremy Stöhs, Pt. 2
Read Part One here. By Roger Hilton RH: You state that after the end of the Cold War many states had been able to consolidate their militaries despite fiscal restrictions. This all changed in 200...
On The Decline of European Naval Power: A Conversation with Jeremy Stöhs, Pt. 1
By Roger Hilton The intensifying competition between the United States, Russia, and China for control of strategic spaces has brought with it a slew of challenges and a lowered threshold for pote...
Turkish F-35s – Where Do We Go From Here?
By Jon G. Isaac A Transatlantic Standoff In January, CIMSEC published an article in which the author advocated against Turkey’s ongoing participation in the development, manufacture, and eventu...
Don’t Forget Our Allies! Interoperable Maritime Operations in a Combined Environment
By LT Jason Lancaster, USN Introduction “I’ve engaged with heads of navies from around the world, upwards of 72 different countries, in the concept that I call a 1,000-ship navy. It’s a tho...
Sea Control 147 – Former German Navy Chief Lutz Feldt on Defining Maritime Security, Pt. 2
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...
The Dimensions of Russian Sea Denial in the Baltic Sea
By Tobias Oder Introduction Over the last few years, the Russian Federation pursued an increasingly assertive foreign policy in Eastern Europe. Geopolitical infringements on Crimea and Eastern Uk...
Lessons from Crimea: The Way Forward for NATO
This analysis was produced as part of the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, held in April of 2017. Since that time, Montenegro has officially joined NATO. By Kirk Wolff Introduction There...
The NATO of the New North
From author Ian Birdwell comes The Changing Arctic, a column focusing on the unique security challenges presented by the increasingly permissive environment in the High North. The Changing Arctic...
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European Answers for African Questions?
Maritime Security Topic Week By Dirk Siebels Introduction Maritime security challenges have received increasing attention in Europe in recent years. In 2014, the Council of the European Union ado...
An Adequate NATO Maritime Posture: The Missing Element For Deterring Russia
European Maritime Security Topic Week By Ian Sundstrom Introduction Since the Alliance Maritime Strategy (AMS) was published in 2011, the strategic context facing NATO has shifted. The drafters e...
The Baltic: Grey-Zone Threats on NATO’s Northern Flank
European Maritime Security Topic Week By Martin N. Murphy, PhD and Gary Schaub, Jr. PhD Hybrid Warfare The governments and peoples of the Baltic States recognize that, following Russia’s takeo...
Integrating Maritime Security Operations in the Mediterranean
Maritime Security Topic Week By Evmorfia-Chrysovalantou Seiti Introduction The European Union represents the latest stage of the larger European integration that began at the end of World War II,...
The Case for a Constant NATO CSG Presence in the Mediterranean
European Maritime Security Topic Week By Jason Chuma The Carrier Strike Group (CSG), with its air wing, surface escorts, and auxiliary support vessels, provides capabilities with great flexibilit...
Lessons and Activities of the Maritime Expeditionary Operations Conference 2016
By Clarissa Butler During the third week of July, Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), together with Combined Joint Operations from the Sea, Centre of Excellence (CJOS COE), hos...
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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 ...
Repositioning NATO after the Warsaw Summit
This article originally featured at the Conference for Defence Associations Institute and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here. CDA Institute guest contributor And...
Members’ 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 increa...
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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....
December 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 carrie...
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...
NORDEFCO Cooperation and the Russian Threat
The following piece by guest author Michael E. Lambert is from our partners at the CDA Institute as part of an ongoing content-sharing relationship. You can read the article in its original form...
Russian Navy Reads the Art of War
Russia Resurgent Topic Week By Vidya Sagar Reddy The Russian Federation intends to restore prestige and territory lost with the fall of Soviet Union. The key military objectives associated with t...
From Russia With Love…To Ceuta
This post originally appeared on Common Sense. You may read it in its original form here. By Fernando Betancor Defense experts on both sides of the Atlantic have expressed concern about the inc...
Protraction: A 21st Century Flavor of Deterrence
This interview originally appeared on the Small Wars Journal website and was republished with permission. You may find the interview in its original form here. Interview with Jim Thomas (CSBA)...
September 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 ...
Naval Logistics, The “Mediterranean Corridor,” and the Pivot to the Pacific
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Collective Defense in the High North: It’s Time for NATO to Prioritize the Arctic
By Sally DeBoer In late May of this year, NATO, along with Sweden and Finland, participated in the Arctic Challenge Exercise (ACE) 2015. The aerial exercise, which included more than 100 aircraft...
Sea Control 82 – BALTOPS 2015
NATO BALTOPS 2015‘s purpose, history, tested capabilities, and future from its NATO leadership – VADM James Foggo (USN), RADM Tim Lowe (RN), and RDML Juan Garat (Spain). DOWNLOAD: BALTOPS 2...
INFOGRAPHIC: NATO Exercise BALTOPS 2015
NATO’s BALTOPS 2015 runs from 05 – 20 June.
Joint Warrior 2015 Infographic
Joint Warrior is the twice-yearly UK-led NATO exercise in Scotland involving both sea, air and land assets. Joint Warrior 15-1 has gathered 55 ships, a similar number of planes, and 14,000 person...
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 ...
The Rapid Growth of the Algerian Navy
The Algerian Navy has been on a buying frenzy in recent years, amassing a significant maritime force. In September 2014, representing the culmination of a longer term procurement project, Italy...
LCS Versus the Danish Strawman
Many critics have assailed the Littoral Combatant Ship (LCS) program for its high cost in comparison with foreign, supposedly better armed and equipped equivalents. The Danish Iver Huitfeldt and ...
The Gutting of Ukraine
By Norman Friedman China has consistently supported Ukraine during its agony at the hands of Russian-supported separatists. One of the less-publicized reasons why is that China has relied heavily...
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Fit to be a Frigate?
Is LCS fit to replace the retiring FFG 7 class frigate?
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The Brazilian Navy: Green Water or Blue?
Although much attention has been directed toward the uncertain fate of the Mistral-class amphibious assault ships that were being built in Saint-Nazaire, France for export to Russia, there has be...
Experimenting 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...
Unmanned Autonomous Systems Countermeasures NATO Workshop
It is common sense that Unmanned Autonomous Systems can be used against NATO populations and forces – but beyond the public perception of this threat, there is a need for an expert level de...
NATO Defense Spending, Past and Present: Part 1
Discussions and data presentations surrounding the recent NATO summit on member state spending levels on defense and the now-metronomic domestic squabbles over the United States’ own military...
Sea Control 44: Ukraine Crisis (Re-Post)
In light of the MH17 disaster in Eastern Ukraine, we re-air Sea Control 25: The Crimean Crisis (with three CIMSEC writers: Dave Blair, Viribus Unitis, and Robert Rasmussen). As we discuss this ...
Sea Control 40 (East Atlantic) – Defense Cooperation
Alex Clarke is joined by the cadre in a third panel discussion for the East Atlantic Series. They discuss multination forces: whether and how nations should combine together to maximize security ...
The Quebec Wars
Daniel S. Matthews brings us this fourth article for our Sacking of Rome Series. It is the unexpected turns that vex empires the most. Rome did not expect Hannibal to cross the Alps, the French d...
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Europe’s Role in an East Asian War
Major war in East Asia is a very unpleasant, but not unthinkable scenario. Of course, the US would be involved from day one in any military conflict in the East or South China Seas. However, Euro...
Sea Control 36 (East Atlantic) – NATO Defense Spending
Your monthly East Atlantic edition of Sea Control brings you Alex Clarke with a panel on the state of NATO’s defense spending in the UK and Continental Europe, and whether this spending is suff...
Nordic NATO Nominees
Until recently, it was hard to imagine Sweden joining NATO. With long traditions of neutrality, Sweden and Finland had distanced themselves from the main military centers of Europe. The reason fo...
NATO’s Pivot to Russia: Cold War 2.0 at Sea?
Putin’s annexation of the Crimea shifts NATO’s focus back to Europe. Therefrom, maritime security’s relevance for the Alliance will suffer. Nevertheless, Russia’s new assertiveness has ma...
Sea Control 27 – International Law, Crimea, and China
Professor Anthony Clark Arend joins us to discuss International law. We discuss some basic definitions, and their influence on international actors, using the lens of Crimea and the Chinese ADIZ....
Sea Control 25 – Crimean Crisis
Sea Control discusses the Crimean Crisis, with three CIMSEC writers: Dave Blair, Viribus Unitis, and Robert Rasmussen. We discuss Russia’s aims and tactics, the Maidan movement, Ukrainian gover...
NATO Should Block the Bosporus and Assure its Allies
Felix is a fellow at the Institute for Security Policy, University of Kiel, Germany and runs the site Seidlers Sicherheitspolitik“. This article was published there at first The times for good-...
Fast Response Not Necessarily the Best in Crimea
As matters continue to escalate between Ukraine and Russia in Crimea, many are quickly calling for action in response by the United States. They say it is our duty as a leader on the world stage,...
Sea Control 21 – Threat Projection
Today’s extended episode is a chat on future threat projection with Dennis Smith of the Project on International Peace and Security from William and Mary, Chris Peterson of the Fletcher School...
The Albanian Navy in Action
The Republic of Albania, which joined NATO together with Croatia in 2009, has had an interesting relationship with its own maritime forces over the past two decades. Until the onset of economic c...
Post-Election German Security Strategy
After this week's vote in Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel is likely to govern at least until 2017. Although fundamental strategy and policy shifts are unlikely, that does not mean everything wil...
Should NATO Pay Attention to the South Atlantic?
Does a NATO-Colombia partnership make sense? Is cooperation with Brazil realistic? Will NATO be needed to fight piracy in the Gulf of Guinea? Has NATO any role to play in the wider South Atlantic...
What NATO Must Do After ISAF
While some question NATO’s relevance, and even its need to exist after Afghanistan, there are, in fact, many jobs left to be done. Deterrence and Defense In Germany, few people understand th...
The Finnish Exception
A consistent challenge for NATO has been the issue of involving non-NATO partners in its interoperability and capability boosting activities. When NATO undertakes important operations at the behe...
How to Negotiate with Pirates
Despite having declared a ‘comprehensive approach’ to Somalia, linking security with development, and launching the EUNAVFOR mission in December 2008, the European Union (EU) has neglected ...
West Africa: An Ounce of Prevention
After a series of high-profile stand-offs with Somali pirates, the international community has directed a great deal of resources toward securing the Gulf of Aden. But with an increase in piracy ...
NATO in the Arctic?
By Andrew Chisholm Canada’s recent assumption of the Chairmanship of the Arctic Council prompted much discussion of Arctic issues, including security, an important element of which is the ongoi...
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A Lack of Coordination: The U.S., Canada, and the Threat of Maritime Attacks
By Aaron Willschick Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, border security between Canada and the United States has become a much greater concern for both nations. Because of the many waterways...