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What Happens Next After the Expiration of the Hormuz MoU?

Published Aug 24, 2026 12:18 PM by The Maritime Executive

The maritime community, as it has had to for much of the last six months, is having to work out for itself what is happening in th...

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Op-Ed: "Alternative" GHG Proposals Would Derail IMO's Climate Progress

Published Aug 23, 2026 10:49 PM by Lukas Leppert

The shipping sector makes up 2-3% of global greenhouse gas emissions - about the same as the world’s fifth biggest emitting countr...

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Antarctica Could Get its First Subsea Data Cable

Published Aug 23, 2026 8:46 PM by The Maritime Executive

Chile has achieved a significant milestone in a project likely to see Antarctica get connected to the global fiber-optic network....

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Russia Launches Oniks Cruise Missile from Disputed Kuril Islands

Published Aug 23, 2026 6:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

Russia’s Pacific Fleet has followed up the provocative visit by President Putin on August 13 to one of the Kuril Islands (disputed...

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Stepping Stones to Security: Pacifying the Iranian-Held Tunb Islands

Published Aug 23, 2026 6:18 PM by CIMSEC

[By Francis J. Bell] Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb occupy positions of strategic importance disproportionate to their si...

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Op-Ed: War With Iran Has Left Western World Exposed to Ballistic Missiles

Published Aug 20, 2026 8:35 PM by The Strategist

In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy air defen...

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Saildrone Completes Missile Launch Test Aboard its Sail-Powered Surveyor

Published Aug 20, 2026 8:34 PM by The Maritime Executive

California-based USV builder Saildrone says that it successfully test-fired small missiles from its larger Surveyor sail-powered d...

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White House's Hormuz Traffic Claims Diverge From Independent Counts

Published Aug 20, 2026 7:53 PM by The Maritime Executive

As the U.S. advances a message of economic pressure and operational control in the Strait of Hormuz, the gap between the administr...

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Landlocked Central Asian Kyrgyz Republic Warns IMO of False Flag

Published Aug 20, 2026 4:53 PM by The Maritime Executive

False flag operations continue to pop up and jump from country to country as quickly as nations can issue warnings of the situatio...

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China Rushes to Complete Paracel Island Militarization

Published Aug 20, 2026 2:50 PM by The Maritime Executive

Satellite imagery shows that China is rushing to complete building work on what used to be the Antelope Reef in the South China Se...

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