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Sir, Be Radical

Notes to the New CNO Series By Chris Rielage Navy thinkers have already laid the intellectual groundwork for aggressive change....

Notes to the New CNO Series Kicks Off on CIMSEC

By Dmitry Filipoff For the next two weeks, CIMSEC will be featuring short notes submitted to our Call for Notes...

Sea Control 586: What Moral Leadership Looks Like with William Spears

By Brian Kerg Commander William Spears, U.S. Navy, joins the program to discuss his article, “What Moral Leadership Looks Like,”...

Cruise Law News’ New Look and Enhanced Features

I am excited to share several updates we made to Cruise Law News that will improve the appearance and function...

Filipino Crew Members Continue to be Targeted in Mass Deportations From Cruise Ships

Four additional Filipino crew members, this time from the Carnival Pride, were detained and deported while in the Port of...

Carnival Crew Member Sentenced to Four Years for Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material

A Carnival crew member, Reza Heta Pratama, was sentenced in New Orleans by a federal district court judge for possession...

Carnival Crew Member Sentenced to Four Years for Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material

A Carnival crew member, Reza Heta Pratama, was sentenced in New Orleans by a federal district court judge for possession...

Call for Articles: Short Story Fiction

Stories Due: November 10, 2025 Week Dates: December 1-5, 2025 Story Length: 1,5000-3,000 Words Submit to: Content@cimsec.org By Dmitry Filipoff In...

Two Decades of Injustice: Looking Back at George Smith’s Disappearance

George Smith disappeared over two decades ago on July 5, 2005, from Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas. What followed...

Man Jumps Overboard Royal Caribbean Cruise After Losing $16,000 Gambling

A man jumped overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas after he lost more than $16,000 in the ship’s...

It is Time for Naval Mines to Enter the Missile Age

By Benjamin Massengale Introduction Much has been written over the last two decades about how cost-effective naval mine warfare can...

Countering the People’s Republic of China’s Maritime Insurgency in the South Pacific

By Jason Lancaster Guadalcanal, the Coral Sea, Tarawa, New Guinea, and Iron Bottom Sound highlight the strategic location of the...

Design, Decide, Forget: Why the Navy Needs a Lessons-Learned Center for Shipbuilding

By Marcus Jones In March 2025 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, Ronald O’Rourke,...

Sea Control 585: Imperial Germany and China’s Basing Ambitions with Chuck Ridgeway

By Jonathan Selling Retired USN Commander Chuck Ridgway joins the podcast to discuss his article “What Imperial Germany Teaches About...

Call for NavyCon 2025 Presentations: The Influence of Navies on Science Fiction, NASA, and Space

By Claude Berube Proposals Due: September 22, 2025 Virtual Event Date: December 6, 2025 Presentation Length: 15 minutes Submit to: Content@cimsec.org...

U.S. Naval Academy Admissions and the Meritocracy Ideal

By Bill Bray In July 1944, at the height of the greatest naval war in human history and arguably the...

Reprioritize SWO Tactical Qualifications for the High-End Fight

By Seth Breen As the U.S. Navy pivots toward preparing for high-end maritime conflict, the SWO community must ask itself...

It’s Time to Invite Taiwan to RIMPAC

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

Call for Notes to the New CNO

By Dmitry Filipoff Submissions Due: September 12, 2025 Week Dates: September 22-26, 2025 Submission Length: 500 words Submit to: Content@cimsec.org In...

A System of Systems Analysis is Needed for Maritime Strike

By Dick Mosier The US military is expanding its inventory of long-range maritime strike missiles such as the Precision Strike...