Last week, on 15 August, the UK launched a new maritime strategy that sets out how the UK will enhance its capabilities in technology, innovation, and cyber security. The new five-year plan redefines ...

The 2025 National Security Strategy recasts naval power as an economic and industrial instrument, pushing the Navy toward unmanned systems, hemispheric missions, and more cost-effective approaches to ...

Editor’s Note: Bryan McGrath was the primary author of the 2007 maritime strategy that preceded this new work. Bryan Clark previously served as a close adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Craig Hooper evaluates security threats and proposes solutions. The Trump administration has released America’s first new joint ...

Three years ago, I published an essay on the challenge of crafting a good strategy in the Naval Institute Proceedings. This short research paper was my contribution to an effort to develop an update ...

The Ukrainian government is working on a new maritime strategy that will be soon approved by the National Security and Defense Council, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on July 6. The Black Sea ...

Those with an interest in East Asian nautical affairs should read and ponder China’s 13 th Five Year Plan. Xinhua News Agency has published an English-language summary of many—but far from all—of the ...

One of the unintended consequences of pushing hard against Chinese claims in the South China Sea and the East China Sea (including Taiwan) is that these contested zones have given major impetus to ...

Last July, I authored an article titled “America Has a Chance to Beat Back China’s South China Sea (SCS) Strategy,” highlighting an aggressive Chinese public relations (PR) campaign throughout the ...

The Military Sealift Command maritime prepositioning ship USNS Sgt. William R. Button (T-AK 3012) is moored off the coast of Latvia for the Saber Strike 17 Maritime Prepositioning Force offload ...

The state is trying to coordinate maritime strategy through a new 15-member Maritime Commission supported by an Office of Maritime Policy at the Department of Transportation. Last spring, the ...

What if Russia decides to deal with internal political and economic problems by attacking NATO’s Baltic member states? Most of NATO’s efforts to ensure the security of its most vulnerable Eastern ...