In the Middle Eastern theater, Iran exercises strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz through the employment of Unmanned ...

It did so not because it trusted Moscow, but because the closure of Hormuz had rendered its own sanctions architecture ...

Iran, for its part, has calibrated its control over the strait with precision. Satellite data and marine traffic analysis ...

The Trump administration responded with an instrument no prior administration deployed at scale. The $40 billion DFC-Chubb ...

The strait was open when the campaign began; Iran closed it in response to the strikes, and the commerce the United States sought to protect collapsed. But the war was fought, and fighting it taught ...

For the next two weeks, CIMSEC will be featuring writing submitted to our Call for Articles on maritime conflict with Iran.

For years, the public debate over a possible Chinese Communist invasion of Taiwan has focused on a single question: Does the People’s Liberation Army have sufficient amphibious lift to move an ...

In April and May 2024, CIMSEC featured a special series of analysis submitted in response to our call for articles on the crisis in the Red Sea. Authors assessed a wide variety of dimensions and ...

For the next two weeks, CIMSEC will be featuring writing submitted to our Call for Articles on maritime conflict with Iran. The maritime domain has featured prominently in the Iran War and heavily ...

Over the last few years, the Russian Federation pursued an increasingly assertive foreign policy in Eastern Europe. Geopolitical infringements on Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are coupled with hybrid ...

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 ...

Every day, U.S. Coast Guard cutters patrol the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea for drug smuggling vessels, seizing more cocaine than all other American law enforcement agencies combined.