The debate surrounding the Strait of Hormuz often assumes that the only way to restore shipping is to eliminate Iran’s ...

After two years at sea, will the EU return with its shield in hand, or be carried back upon it? The evidence suggests the ...

But history suggests a different path. During past maritime crises, naval powers have frequently restored commerce not by ...

You will wait until your body cooperates with the demands of a computer-generated random selection process, overseen by a fellow Sailor – the Urinalysis Program Coordinator (UPC) – whose primary duty ...

Thousands of commercial and private vessels transit the world’s oceans daily, broadcasting positional data, transmitting communications through exploitable unencrypted satellite communications, and ...

The international order has come under immense strain in recent years. Major wars have erupted between the great powers in Ukraine and the Middle East. The U.S.’s top geopolitical rivals have ...

The PLA absorbed this lesson from Mahan and filtered it through the lens of Desert Storm’s demonstration of American power ...

China’s behavior in the South China Sea, along with efforts to highlight it such as the Philippines Transparency Initiative, and deter it such as the Maritime Counterinsurgency Project do appear to be ...

Since 2022, Russia has sharply increased its employment of illegal/coercive/aggressive/deceptive (ICAD) maritime tactics in the Baltic Sea, often loosely referred to ...

In January 1991, Chinese military officers watched CNN footage of the United States dismantling the Iraqi Army and experienced what one People’s Liberation Army (PLA) analyst later called a ...