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Russian Warships Linger in the English Channel
The Russian frigate RFS Admiral Grigorovich (F494) has been lurking in the English Channel since the end of April, evidently to es...
Read More >>U.S. Coast Guard Offloads $60 Million Worth of Cocaine in Port Everglades
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear has offloaded four tonnes of cocaine and a small cargo of marijuana onto the pier at...
Read More >>U.S. Conducts Counterstrike on Iran in Retaliation for Ever Lovely Attack
In response to yesterday's Iranian attack on a Taiwanese boxship in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. forces have conducted an airstrike...
Read More >>Ukrainian Pressure on Russian Presence in Crimea Builds
The long-running and carefully-designed Ukrainian campaign to weaken Russia’s occupation of Crimea appears to be building and may...
Read More >>Hormuz and the Era of Assymetry: Sea Mines and Unmanned Systems
[By Admiral Massimo Vianello (Ret.) and Master Chief Petty Officer Giovanni Giorguli (Ret.)] The conflict between Iran and the Isr...
Read More >>Rising Tensions in Yemen Threaten Red Sea Transits
There have been a number of worrying indicators recently that tensions between the Houthis in the north and the Internationally Re...
Read More >>Global Ocean Protection is No Simple Equation
The global ambition to protect 30 percent of the world’s land and ocean by 2030 – known simply as “30x30” – has helped galvanize g...
Read More >>South Korea Gears Up to Implement U.S. Shipbuilding Investment Plan
South Korea's government-backed policy banks are gearing up for a well-publicized initiative to invest in the U.S. domestic shipbu...
Read More >>How Russia Benefited From Iran’s Chokepoint Weapon
[By Rustam Taghizade] When the Trump administration granted India a 30-day waiver on March 5 to purchase Russian oil, the formal j...
Read More >>Carrying the Risk: What Protects Seafarers in a War Zone?
Every year for the past two decades, the world has celebrated June 25 as the Day of the Seafarer. This year’s theme, “Carrying wor...
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