Key Developments
Ukraine’s “People’s Satellite”: Crowdfunded Intelligence and the Commercialization of Modern War
The war in Ukraine has become the most consequential laboratory for twenty-first-century warfighting since the Gulf…
Read More »From Chokepoint to Corridor: MV-75 Cheyenne in the Defense of the GIUK Gap
The Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap is not a legacy Cold War concept kept alive by strategic nostalgia.…
Read More »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,…
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Book Review
04/28/2026
The fifth edition of The United States Marines: A History by Edwin Howard Simmons and Lt. Col. Charles Patrick Neimeyer stands as the definitive single-volume chronicle of America's amphibious force-in-readiness. Spanning from the Continental Marines of 1775 through modern conflicts, this Naval...
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