The Iran War and the Chokepoint Reckoning: What CIMSEC’s Series Confirms About the Coming Naval Order
The Center for International Maritime Security has just closed out a two-week series on the U.S.-Iran…
Read More »A Different Aircraft for a Different Fight: The CH-53K vs. CH-53E in Long-Range Raid Operations
The CH-53K King Stallion is a substantially better enabler of long-range raid operations than its predecessor,…
Read More »Who Controls the Cognitive Infrastructure? The Real Stakes Behind Mythos and Tulongfeng
The strategic competition between the United States and China is often framed as a race to…
Read More »Remembering July 2nd: The Founding Fathers, Franklin’s Paris, and a Brazilian Echo of 1776
Every year on the 4th of July, Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence with fireworks, parades,…
Read More »The Navy-After-Next: Four Fleet Designs, One Missing CONOPS
Military leaders often use military-industry conferences to unveil new strategies. Coming on the heels of a…
Read More »Tracking the MISR Effort: From Pilot Program to Kill Web Enabler
The coverage of Maritime ISR (MISR) Weapons and Tactics Instructors across Second Line of Defense and…
Read More »Russia’s War in Ukraine and Its Hybrid Campaign Against Moldova: Divergent Methods, Converging Failure
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked a decisive shift in European security. It…
Read More »The Tiltrotor Enterprise as Strategic Architecture: A Body of Work
There is a particular risk in defense analysis when the field is treated as a series…
Read More »Cultivating the Chaos Navigator
The global security environment has not entered a period of elevated risk. It has entered a…
Read More »Czech Vipers in Poland: A New Layer in NATO’s Counter-Drone Fight
The Czech Republic’s decision to send a pair of AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to Poland is…
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