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Canadian Coast Guard Fires Captain Who Willfully Disregarded Distress Call
The Canadian Coast Guard disciplined a veteran captain with 18 years of experience, firing him after an incident in which it found...
Read More >>The United States Can’t Deter China Without Allied Shipyards
[By Patrick M. Cronin and David Glick] Industrial endurance and allied integration are indispensable to making deterrence-by-denia...
Read More >>U.S. Navy Turns Down Hormuz Escort Requests Because of High Risk
The U.S. Navy has so far declined to provide Strait of Hormuz escorts for shipping, despite daily requests, multiple sources told...
Read More >>Pakistan Begins Escorting Shipping as Fuel Austerity Measures are Enacted
Pakistan became the first nation outside the Arabian Gulf region to announce sweeping austerity measures due to the skyrocketing p...
Read More >>EU Plans for Ship Scrapping Reignite Debate Over India's HKC Standards
A declaration by the European Union of plans to cooperate with India in ship recycling has ignited controversy over the country’s...
Read More >>Russia Moves to Capitalize on Energy Market Turmoil From Iran Conflict
Russia stands well-positioned to take advantage of spiking oil prices and turmoil in the energy markets, both on its short-term re...
Read More >>Cambodia's Blue Economy Problem
[By Nory Ly] Cambodia isn’t typically thought of as a coastal nation. But its shoreline of 435?kilometers alongside the Gulf of Th...
Read More >>India Offered Refuge to Iranian Frigate Before U.S. Navy Sank It
The sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena was a matter of great sensitivity for India, as the warship had just attended an inte...
Read More >>Op-Ed: Conflict With Iran Opens a Missile-Defense Gap for China
[By David Axe] The US- and Israeli-led war on Iran has been, with a few key caveats, a quick military success for the United State...
Read More >>Report: White House Considering a Raid to Seize Kharg Island
The Trump administration is contemplating a series of special forces operations inside of Iran, potentially including a raid to se...
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