Both ships dragged their anchors for miles, intentionally targeting and cutting the critical undersea cables that connect ...

Whether you build a Navy for high consequence, low probability or low consequence, high probability scenarios — in either ...

The United States and Iran are at war, with a vital waterway dominating strategic concerns. A fight over the Strait of Hormuz ...

Despite a significant presence of U.S. naval forces in the region, Iran has effectively contested control of the Strait with ...

The following is the first in a five-part series meant to shed light on Hainan Province’s maritime militia. For decades, these irregular forces have been an important element of Chinese maritime force ...

The Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, together with the adjoining Marmara Sea, are known collectively as the Turkish Straits and provide the only access between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. More ...

Americans hear about countries such as China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran on a frequent basis, and for good reason. All have been intertwined in global affairs, politics at home, or both for most of ...

Regardless of prognostications of future conflict it is clear that the history of the 21 st century will be written in the Indo-Pacific. Accordingly, as the United States steams into in an ...

While much of the international attention on China’s naval buildup is focused on its rapidly modernizing surface fleet, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is also taking bold steps to field a ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shocked the international order. What surprised the world even more was Ukraine’s ability to resist. While many in the West believed Ukraine would only ...

On 21 July 2013, several dozen Sansha City “residents” stood before the city government building and swore oaths during an inspection by Mayor Xiao Jie (肖杰) and his military counterpart Garrison ...