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Senior U.S. Navy officials tour Hyundai Heavy Industries, 2025 (USN file image)

The United States Can’t Deter China Without Allied Shipyards

Published Mar 10, 2026 8:48 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Patrick M. Cronin and David Glick] Industrial endurance and allied integration are indispensable to making deterr...

Archers Need Arrows: Strengthening the U.S. Navy's Submarine Arsenal

Published Mar 3, 2026 10:13 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Alana Davis] In 2023, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) wargamed a conflict bet...

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) along with Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) guided-missile destroyer JS Chokai (DDG 176) and Republic of Korea Navy guided-missile destroyer ROKS Sejong The Great (DDG 991)

Op-Ed: Congress Should Let Foreign Shipbuilders Help Strengthen U.S. Navy

Published Jan 25, 2026 8:05 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Shipbuilding

  [By CDR Chase E. Harding, USN] The balance of power in the Indo-Pacific is shifting rapidly as China's shipbuildi...

Op-Ed: Peace in Gaza May Not Mean Peace in the Red Sea

Published Nov 23, 2025 11:25 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Matt Reisener] Since October 2023, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group that seized control over much of the country...

Op-Ed: A "Night Court" for the U.S. Navy's Administrative Overload

Published Nov 13, 2025 8:29 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Lt. Chris Rielage] Time is our critical resource now. The Navy knows that we have a few scant years before we fac...

Maritime statecraft in development: then-Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro visits a modern South Korean shipyard (USN file image)

Maritime Statecraft and its Future

Published Nov 2, 2025 5:43 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Steve Brock and Hunter Stires] With shipping and shipbuilding receiving high-level political and diplomatic atten...

Op-Ed: US Navy's Networks Aren't Ready for a Contested Comms Environment

Published Oct 5, 2025 10:39 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Nicholas A. Kristof] In his remarks at his assumption of office ceremony, Admiral Caudle stated that, &...

Chinese maritime militia trawlers massed at Whitsun Reef, Dec. 2023 (PCG)

Countering China's Maritime Insurgency in the South Pacific

Published Sep 14, 2025 12:37 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Jason Lancaster] Guadalcanal, the Coral Sea, Tarawa, New Guinea, and Iron Bottom Sound highlight the strategic lo...

Why the US Navy Needs a Lessons-Learned Center for Shipbuilding

Published Sep 8, 2025 3:56 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Dr. Marcus Jones] In March 2025 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projecti...

Op-Ed: It's Time to Invite Taiwan to America's Biggest Naval Exercise

Published Sep 7, 2025 2:26 PM by CIMSEC

Posted in: Government

  [By Jim Halsell] The Taiwan Strait remains one of the most volatile flashpoints in the world. With the People’s...