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The Surface Warfare Officer Career Path – An Egalitarian Construct in need of some Improvement

SWO Specialization Week By Mike Fierro As a SWO, my career included serving as the Surface Commander Detailer and CRUDES...

Another Norovirus Outbreak on HAL’s Rotterdam Cruise Ship

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the Rotterdam cruise ship operated by Holland America Line (HAL)...

Specialization vs. Warfighting: Balancing Technology and the Human Element in War

SWO Specialization Week By Gerry Roncolato Introduction “Despite the remarkable developments in military technology, despite the weapons and machines which...

No Time to Specialize

SWO Specialization Week By Chris Rielage SWO specialization was a good idea for the last generation of officers, but time...

Passenger Arrested For Possession and Transportation of Child Pornography After Disembarking From Majestic Princess Cruise

A twenty-two year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama, was arrested for possession and transportation of child pornography at Port Everglades on...

Preparing for the Future Fight: A Blended Career Path for Surface Warfare Officers

SWO Specialization Week By Scott Mobley Specialization debates are hardly new to the U.S. Navy or the Surface Warfare Officer...

The Merchant Marine Specialized 100 years ago. The Navy should have then, and needs to now.

SWO Specialization Week By MIDN 1/C Jeffrey W. Jaeger, USNR Since 1899, the U.S. Navy has used a generalist career...

Sixteen-Year Old Girl Allegedly Raped on Carnival Sunrise

A sixteen-year-old girl aboard a Carnival cruise ship was allegedly sexually assaulted by another teenager who was arrested by the...

SWO Specialization: Specialize by Platform Groups to Win the High-End Fight, Pt. 1

SWO Specialization Week By LCDR JR Dinglasan, USN Introduction  To win the fight against a peer adversary, the navy’s surface...

Stepbrothers Accused of Tricking and Raping 25-Year-Old Passenger on Carnival Sunrise

Two American cruise passengers have been charged with rape after allegedly swapping places to deceive a woman into having sex...

The Commanding Officer Must Be a Fighting Engineer — Surface Warfare and Generalism

SWO Specialization Week By Rob Watts The debate over whether Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) should be “generalists” or “specialists” is...

SWO Specialization Week Kicks Off on CIMSEC

By Dmitry Filipoff This week CIMSEC is publishing submissions sent in response to our Call for Articles on whether U.S....

Cruise Passenger Goes Overboard From Nieuw Statendam

A seventy-seven year old passenger reportedly went overboard from Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam in the early morning hours of...

CIMSEC’s Top 10 of 2025

By Dmitry Filipoff In the past year, numerous authors wrote for CIMSEC to offer useful insights and analysis on a...

Sea Control: 593 Information and Warfighting with General Robert Neller

Host Brian Kerg talks with General Robert Neller, USMC (Ret.) to discuss the role of information in warfighting and the...

Annual Fiction Week Concludes on CIMSEC

By Dmitry Filipoff For the last two weeks, CIMSEC featured short stories submitted in response to our Call for Fiction....

Royal Caribbean Passenger Boards Cruise With Gun, Sent to Bahamian Prison

A 69-year-old grandmother spent several days in the infamous Bahamian Fox Hill Prison after she was arrested for bringing a...

Sea Control 592: The US Coast Guard in the Aleutian Islands with Steven Hulse

Walker interviews U.S. Coast Guard Commander Steven Hulse about his Proceedings article, “Bases on the Aleutians Islands Would Project Power...

What is Old Is New Again

Fiction Week By Michael Hanson Summer 2031 When the war that the Marine Corps anticipated for more than a decade...

Ghost Town

Fiction Week By Kenyan Medley USS John F Kennedy Philippine Sea 0237, 04 OCT 2034 Four years after the blockade...