Iran War Topic Week. By Ehud Eiran. The joint military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on ...
The joint military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, 2026, was initially conceived and executed primarily as an air campaign. The opening phase of the war ...
It did so not because it trusted Moscow, but because the closure of Hormuz had rendered its own sanctions architecture ...
The Trump administration responded with an instrument no prior administration deployed at scale. The $40 billion DFC-Chubb ...
In the Middle Eastern theater, Iran exercises strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz through the employment of Unmanned ...
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.
Written by Wilder Alejandro Sanchez, The Southern Tide addresses maritime security issues throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It discusses the challenges regional navies face including limited ...
In 2022, Congress established the independent National Commission on the Future of the Navy to conduct two overarching studies, one examining naval force structure and the other focused on ...
Recent conflicts in the Middle East highlight how maritime kill chains from ashore impose risk on global shipping. However, Western navies have yet to fully grasp that within these loosely integrated ...
Between January 13 and 15, the 38th Annual Surface Navy Symposium convened in Crystal City, Virginia, offering a detailed look at the state of the surface fleet. Senior leaders—from the Secretary of ...