Center for International Maritime Security

A Sustainable Approach to Counter Piracy and Armed Robbery?

In recent decades, piracy incidents, especially off the Horn of Africa, reached high levels, impairing regional shipping and ...
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What the Royal Thai Navy’s Offshore Fire Support Reveals About Its Approach to Littoral Warfare

Though the Thai navy remains attuned to the U.S. Navy’s surface way of warfare through its four decades of participation in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) and Cobra Gold exercises, ...
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Russia’s Strategic Brown Water Capabilities: A NATO Blind Spot?

Russia’s inland waterways hold strategic significance. This is due to three reasons: first, the country has a large number of ...
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How China’s Expanded Operations in the Sea of Japan are Troubling Tokyo

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) response to Taiwan President Lai’s inauguration highlighted Beijing’s regional assertiveness and military capabilities. That same week, China’s ambassador to Japan ...
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Made In China 2025’s Impact on Chinese Shipbuilding

Ten years ago, the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, introduced two major policy initiatives: Made in China 2025 and military-civil fusion. Each represents an upgrade of ...
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Countering the People’s Republic of China’s Maritime Insurgency in the South Pacific

Guadalcanal, the Coral Sea, Tarawa, New Guinea, and Iron Bottom Sound highlight the strategic location of the South Pacific during the Second World War. Today, U.S. and allied preeminence in this ...
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Maritime Security on NATO’s Southern Flank: The Case for a Spanish Coast Guard

With the return of great power competition and the prospects for a highly-contested maritime space in the Euro-Atlantic area, NATO will be called to play a more active role at sea to preserve ...
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Parting Ways: A NATO Naval Strategy Without America

In this era of increasing danger, great power competition, and uncertain loyalties, the time has come for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to declare its independence. As at the time of its ...
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Navy Force Planning with a Pertinacious Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps has an outsized effect on Navy force planning. While the Navy and the Marines exhibit a sincere and genuine single team spirit conducting global naval operations, they ...
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Neither Fish nor Fowl: China’s Development of a Nuclear Battery AIP Submarine

On September 27, 2024, news broke that a previously unreported new type of Chinese nuclear-powered submarine, dubbed the “Type 041,” had suffered a major mishap at its fitting out pier at the Wuchang ...
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SMWDC, Growing the Tactical Skill of the Surface Force

CIMSEC recently engaged with the commander of the Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC), RDML Wilson Marks, to discuss the latest developments and priorities of the command. RDML ...