Fiction Week By Jay Turner The ocean was calm off the coast of Virginia as Jake settled into his captain’s chair on the bridge wing of his Navy destroyer. The morning breeze was fresh...
Fiction Week By Philip Kiley The pilot boat’s horn cut twice, a warning that flattened chatter across the lock wall. LT Mara Delgado raised her head from the operations console as a bright speck...
Fiction Week By Sandro Carniel The bridge of the offshore patrol vessel Frosch smelled of diesel and wet steel — the residue of a storm that had just lashed the Barents Sea with four-meter-high...
Fiction Week By Paul Viscovich, CDR, USN (Ret.) “What if the People’s Liberation Army lures us to the wrong landing beach?” “Say again, Commander?” Admiral Dale Lee gave his operations officer a quizzical look....
Fiction Week By Malcom Reynolds Undisclosed Location Eastern Theater Command 3 March 2027 2125 local time “Comrade General, welcome,” said Colonel Pei Yuanqing as he saluted, then sat behind his desk. The general sat,...
Host Brian Kerg talks with Steve Brock and Hunter Stires to discuss their CIMSEC article, “Maritime Statecraft and Its Future.” Steven V. Brock was appointed by the White House as the Senior Advisor to...
Fiction Week By Till Andrzejewski Act 1 – Opening Moves February 11, 2050. Today would not be the first time two women, three mothers, seven children, and one grandchild mourned. And of course, not...
Fiction Week By Ben Plotkin /ˈɑnːɑ pɑˈlɑː/ — Finnish, idiomatic interjection Literal: “let it burn” (anna = “give/let,” palaa = “burns”). Idiomatic sense: “go for it,” “bring it on,” “hit it,” “keep it coming.”...
Host Walker D. Mills interviews Marine Corps Captain Colton Byers about his article for the War Quants substack, “Carrier 2.0: The Drone Carrier Revolution.” Their discussion covers salvo equations and modeling, the utility of...
The search for a missing 76-year-old British man has been suspended according to the Spanish Coast Guard. The man, who has not been identified, went overboard from Marella Explorer 2 at approximately 9:45 a.m....