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 Bid for Maritime Primacy in the Indo-Pacific
[By Dr. Patrick M. Cronin] In this decade, the United States Navy may be displaced as the most formidable maritime presence in...
Budget Analysis and the U.S. Navy's Future Fleet Design
[By Dmitry Filipoff] Capt. Arthur “Trip” Barber (ret.) served in the Navy for 41 years, ultimately capping his care...
Down to the Sea in USVs
[By Norman Polmar and Scott C. Truver] “How often can you be at the christening of a robot warship?” Deputy Secreta...
U.S. Navy Heads for the Cloud
[By Christian H. Heller] The Navy is pushing toward an IT future based on cloud computing that promises enormous benefits and c...
Tanzania Pushes Back on Chinese Port Project
[By John Hursh] China’s Maritime Silk Road ambitions suffered a setback after Tanzanian officials refused to budge over s...
The War the U.S. Navy Lost at Sea but Won on the Great Lakes
[By William J. Prom] The first part of this two-essay series discussed the U.S. Navy’s failures to effectively prosecute...
The U.S. Navy in the War of 1812: Winning the Battle, Losing the War
[By William J. Prom] Many popular American histories of the War of 1812 portray the conflict as a series of stunning successes...
Unmanned Solutions for the U.S. Navy's Mine Warfare Renaissance
[By Lt. Cmdr. U.H. (Jack) Rowley and Senior Chief Petty Officer Craig Cates] For those with stewardship of the U.S. Navy&r...
The Maritime Security Challenge in Sabah
[By Zachary Abuza, PhD] In 2013, a group of several hundred armed militants from the southern Philippines landed in the S...
Why Unmanned Systems are Ideal for "Gray Zone" Ops in the Gulf
[By Heiko Borchert] Current incidents in the Arabian Sea should be seized as an opportunity to advance naval conceptual thinkin...