President Donald Trump's administration has become increasingly confident it has eroded Iran's ability to constrict energy flows through the strait of Hormuz, but the high price of those efforts — bot...

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF

Unmanned systems have moved quickly from experimentation and exercises into the demands of an active war.

The Strait of Hormuz was a transit hub for goods from helium to corn. Businesses have battled to find alternative routes

As a bidding war erupts for Austal USA, the U.S. government may need to weigh in on the future of the troubled American shipbuilder.

References to the rules-based order are frequent in everything from the Biden-era Interim National Security Strategic Guidance to the Trump-era Advantage at Sea. Yet what it means to defend the order,...

Shift to two specified times daily follows increase in Iranian attacks

Companies from Palantir to Lockheed account for a small share of spending, but are hard to shake

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS

With the US and Iran launching fresh strikes in the Middle East, the Strait of Hormuz is back under the spotlight. Naval strategist Joshua Tallis says restoring commercial confidence -- not military f...

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A utility designation would allow better regulation of and more rational capital allocation for the builders of the Navy’s capital ships.

The Western allies trying to negotiate a way to protect the Strait of Hormuz for energy shipping face a stark reality: a similar effort in the Red Sea that started years earlier cost billions of dolla...

On day six of the Middle East war, hope of a swift reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is fading. There does not seem to be a quick fix. A material return of transits in the future will require shipowners to be convinced that the route is safe for their crew and vessel assets 

Attacks in the Strait of Hormuz echo the 1980s conflict. Here are the weapons Tehran can use against commercial shipping

Crewman is the first known seafaring casualty of the Middle East conflict

There are so many geopolitical ‘black swans’ in shipping that they might as well be white. Disruption is now the rule, not the exception. Speakers at the HACC-NACC conference in New York laid out the risks ahead

Latvian police have found no evidence linking a ship docked in the port of Liepaja to damage to an underwater telecoms cable running in the Baltic Sea from Latvia to Lithuania, but are investigating t...

Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel last April — and the attack might have been designed to fail. The strike was a show of force built

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In 2024 and 2025, I served for six months as an international volunteer on a first-person view attack drone team in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. My team

For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

Next month will mark 10 years of me being CIMSEC’s volunteer editor-in-chief. It has been an extremely fulfilling experience, and I am beyond grateful to all those I have gotten to work with along the...

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For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

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For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

CNA announced this week that Dr. Jonathan Schroden has accepted the position of Chief Research Officer

For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

China’s booming dual-use shipyards are accelerating its rapid naval buildup. This Hidden Reach investigation demystifies China’s murky shipbuilding ecosystem and explores the role foreign firms play i...

For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

The Red Sea crisis exposed a hard truth: strategy needs more than firepower.

For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in

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