The first week of June 2026 marked a seminal event in the history of sleep and fatigue in the military. The Department of War ...

Despite the geographic importance of the island, Guam’s logistical capacity is far below the needs of the United States in ...

Recent naval operations in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz have demonstrated that the United States Navy remains ...

It is widely documented that Russia has leveraged various threat vectors to employ coercive and ancillary irregular tactics ...

In order to meet this urgent challenge, the United States government and military must treat grid expansion as a national ...

In the last two weeks, CIMSEC featured writing submitted to our Call for Articles on maritime conflict with Iran. Authors covered a wide range of topics, inclu ...

The conflict between Iran and the Israel-United States alliance confirms that conventional armed forces must currently confront asymmetric threats that subvert the logic of traditional power ...

Recent conflicts in the Middle East highlight how maritime kill chains from ashore impose risk on global shipping. However, Western navies have yet to fully grasp that within these loosely integrated ...

Industrial endurance and allied integration are indispensable to making deterrence-by-denial against China credible under the 2026 National Defense Strategy. The Trump administration’s Maritime Action ...

In a year dominated by sharp partisanship, numerous lawmakers improbably united around the revival of America’s commercial shipbuilding industry. Congressional legislation that would channel billions ...

Over the past five years, numerous articles have called for increased U.S. defense resources focused on the Arctic. This is a strategic mistake, a distraction. This article will outline the reasons ...

In March 2025 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, Ronald O’Rourke, naval analyst for the Congressional Research Service since 1984, ...