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Lessons From the Ship That Nearly Destroyed 12 Percent of World Trade
[By Dr. Salvatore R. Mercogliano] The grounding of MV Ever Given from March 23 to March 29, 2021 captured the world&r...
Opinion: The World's Navies and Merchant Fleets Need a Stronger Bond
[By Peter Cook] In his authoritative tome Seapower, Geoffrey Till observes that navies “have to work alongside rathe...
Soft Cyber Laws Make Port Facilities Soft Cyber Targets
[By CDR Michael C. Petta] There is widespread recognition that cybersecurity vulnerabilities make the maritime transportation s...
Winning an AI-Enabled War at Sea
[By Dr. Peter Layton] Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is suddenly important to military forces. Not yet an arms race, t...
How Floating "Repair Yards" Helped the U.S. Navy Win in the Pacific
[By LCDR Ryan Hilger, USN] USS Houston (CL 81), in a hard turn with her underside exposed, felt the torpedo explosion across th...
Deterring China: Why the U.S. Navy's Future Needs to Happen Now
[By Adam Taylor] Recent remarks by Admiral Phil Davidson, Commander of the Indo-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM), highlights one of...
Russia's Eastern Med Presence Complicates Israeli Naval Operations
[By CDR Dr. Eyal Pinko (IDF, ret.)] In recent years, and significantly since the 2011 Syrian uprising, the Russian Navy’s...
Digital Perils: Socially Engineered Attacks in Maritime Cybersecurity
[By Leonid Vashchenko] Maritime digital transformation is in its most rapid and turbulent era. Such a transformation offers sub...
Distributed Shipbuilding for an Unmanned Fleet
[By Collin Fox] Increasingly powerful strategic competitors and a flat defense budget call to mind this pithy quote, often misa...
The Future is Unmanned
[By Trevor Phillips-Levine, Dylan Phillips-Levine, and Walker D. Mills] In August 2020, USNI News reported that the Navy h...