In the last two weeks, CIMSEC featured writing submitted to our Call for Articles on maritime conflict with Iran. Authors ...

The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis exposes the inadequacy of some classical geopolitical frameworks. Alfred Thayer Mahan’s sea ...

The Strait of Hormuz is arguably the most consequential chokepoint in the global economy. Barely thirty kilometers wide at ...

After four months into the conflict, Iran is defiantly refusing to capitulate. This “four week war” now threatens to become ...

Iran War Topic Week. By Ehud Eiran. The joint military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on ...

It did so not because it trusted Moscow, but because the closure of Hormuz had rendered its own sanctions architecture ...

In the Middle Eastern theater, Iran exercises strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz through the employment of Unmanned ...

The Trump administration responded with an instrument no prior administration deployed at scale. The $40 billion DFC-Chubb ...

We have the best equipment in the world inspecting for mines,” hinting that Iran had already deployed in the main channel about 80 of its estimated 6,000 mines. “Most of their ships are down at the ...

When the Trump administration granted India a 30-day waiver on March 5 to purchase Russian oil, the formal justification was straightforward: stabilize global energy markets after Iran effectively ...

Minefield objectives that could inform U.S. planning are listed in the Barriers, Obstacles, and Mine Warfare for Joint Operations, Joint Publication 3-15: Disrupt: A minefield is used to alter enemy ...

Classification of surface warships as cruisers, destroyers, frigates, or corvettes, has become like pornography. There are no generally accepted definitions, but “I know it when I see it”–except that ...