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A Surfacing Strategy: Chinese Unconventional Oceanic Warfare

This article will analyze these unconventional methods, focusing centrally on China’s evolving systems and strategies, while ...
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Tag, You’re It: Modernizing Naval Maintenance Starts with the Tagout Process

Sonar Technician 3 rd Class Timothe Sanders was found dead onboard the in-port USS Helena after inadvertently touching an energized 440 Volt electrical panel improperly returned to service following a ...
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Figure 2: Representation of the impact of Navy PFB on potential Black Recruits (Mr. Michael Johansson) ...
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Readiness for Pacific War 2027

From November 11-18, 2024, CIMSEC featured writing submitted in response to our Call for Articles on readiness for Pacific war in 2027. Authors covered a wide variety of topics, including force design ...
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A Temporary Corridor Strategy for Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz does not need to be made safe to reopen global shipping. It only needs to be made governable. Even as the United States has begun striking selected Iranian military ...
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The Dimensions of Russian Sea Denial in the Baltic Sea

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 ...
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Asymmetric Spending: Taiwan’s Opportunities to Defend Against Economic Warfare

Recent events in the Strait of Hormuz offer a timely reminder that economic warfare at sea rarely resembles the clean, declared naval cordons of the past. Blocking commercial shipping from transiting ...
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China’s Daring Vanguard: Introducing Sanya City’s Maritime Militia

The following is the first in a five-part series meant to shed light on Hainan Province’s maritime militia. For decades, these irregular forces have been an important element of Chinese maritime force ...
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Let Me Get this Strait: The Turkish Straits Question Revisited

The Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, together with the adjoining Marmara Sea, are known collectively as the Turkish Straits and provide the only access between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. More ...
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From the Paracels to the Far Seas: How China Closed Their Maritime Medical Platform Gap

In January 1974, in the tail end of the Vietnam War, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and Republic of Vietnam Navy briefly clashed over control of the Paracel Islands in what became known in ...
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Elemental Leverage: How the United States Can Stop China’s Rare-Earths Squeeze Before the Next Crisis

When China threatens to close its fist, the world listens. In August 2025, Li Chenggang, Beijing’s chief trade negotiator, didn’t bother with euphemism. If the United States continued tightening ...