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.
Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades
[By Dr. Stephen DeCasien] Nearly a century ago, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, U.S.N., wrote in the foreword to Arthur M. Shepar...
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...