CIMSEC
CIMSEC's mission is to build a global community of professionals, academics, and forward thinkers from a variety of fields who wish to further international maritime peace and security through an exchange of ideas and the rigor of critical thought and writing.
China's Unconventional Naval Warfare Capabilities are Evolving
[By Jack Lindstrom] The evolution of maritime warfare has largely moved in expanding the form of conflict and the direction of it....
Op-Ed: What America Must Change to Make Korean Shipbuilding Matter
[By Dr. Marcus Jones] For the first time in decades, the United States is being forced to think seriously about naval shipbuilding...
Stepping Stones to Security: Pacifying the Iranian-Held Tunb Islands
[By Francis J. Bell] Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb occupy positions of strategic importance disproportionate to their si...
Towards a Fatigue Management System for the U.S. Navy
By Dr. John P. Cordle, Captain, USN (Ret). The first week of June 2026 marked a seminal event in the history of sleep and fatigue...
Op-Ed: Guam's Logistics Capacity Must Be Increased
[By Crispinus Lee and Joe Schwartzstein] Guam is the westernmost territory of the United States in the Pacific region. The Congres...
Covert Maritime Intelligence and Russia’s Shadow Fleet
[By Catherine Marie Abbott] It is widely documented that Russia has leveraged various threat vectors to employ coercive and ancill...
U.S. Navy Outperforms in Mideast, But a Pacific War Would Test Endurance
[By Captains Al Collins and Kevin Eyer] Recent naval operations in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz have demonstrated that the...
The Cost of Abandoning Taiwan
[By Josh Richards and Joseph Hanacek] Foreign policy debates are often framed around a single question: what causes are worth figh...
The Insurance Chokepoint: War-Risk Pricing as an Instrument of Coercion
[By Bruce Randolph Tizes] Most analysis of the U.S.-Iran maritime war will focus on carrier strike group positioning, IRGC small-b...
Hormuz and the Era of Assymetry: Sea Mines and Unmanned Systems
[By Admiral Massimo Vianello (Ret.) and Master Chief Petty Officer Giovanni Giorguli (Ret.)] The conflict between Iran and the Isr...