June

Announcements and Updates
CIMSEC’s 2015-2016 Officers and 2015-2017 Board by Scott Cheney-Peters
CIMSEC’s DC June Meet-Up – June 23rd by Scott Cheney-Peters
Call for Articles – July’s Distributed Lethality Week by Jimmy Drennan
CIMSEC’s June NY Meet-up by Scott Cheney-Peters

Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Week
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: A Conversation with Chris Rawley by Sally DeBoer
Find, Fix, Identify, Engage: How Today’s AUV Technology can Compress the Mine Warfare Kill Chain by Terry Miller and John Rapp
UUVs as Stealthy Logistics Platforms by Steve Weintz
Lethal Autonomy in Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles by Sean Welsh
A Survey of Missions for Unmanned Undersea Vehicles: Publication Review by Sally DeBoer

Podcasts
Sea Control 79 – Post-Election UK Defence & Foreign Policy with Alex Clarke
Sea Control 80 – Shangri-La Dialogue and SE Asia Security with Natalie Sambhi
Sea Control 81 – Third Offset and Human Offset with Matt Hipple
Sea Control 82 – BALTOPS 2015 with Matt Hipple
Falklands Series 1 – (Re-Run) 45 Commando with Alex Clarke
Falklands Series 2 – (Re-Run) Parachute Regiment with Alex Clarke
Falklands Series 3 – (Re-Run) 42 Commando with Alex Clarke
Falklands Series 4 – (Re-Run) Mount Kent and Mount Harriet with Alex Clarke
Falklands Series 5 (Re-Run) – South Georgia Operations with Alex Clarke
Falklands Series 6 (New!) – Operation Paraquet with Alex Clarke

Naval Affairs
Geographic Re-balance the Solution to Right-Sizing the Navy by Steven Wills
The Sea Power of the State in the 21st Century by Jessica Huckabey

Asia-Pacific
Vietnam and the U.S. Move Closer, But Need to Discuss A2/AD by Zachary Abuza
China’s South China Sea Strategy: Simply Brilliant by Tyler Malcolm
crossposted from ASPI
INS Vikrant Makes Progress at Cochin Shipyard by Chris B.
China’s Evolving Perspectives on Network Warfare: Lessons from the Science of Military Strategy by Joe McReynolds
crossposted from Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief

Europe
INFOGRAPHIC: NATO Exercise BALTOPS 2015 by Martin Vezian
EUNAVFOR: Switching from pirates to migrants? by Louis Martin-Vézian

Book and Paper Reviews
China’s Military Strategy: Assessment of White Paper 2015 by Gurpreet Singh Khurana
crossposted from National Maritime Foundation
The God of Submarines by Chris Nelson
The Specter of Stuxnet by Shane Halton

General/Misc National Security
Abolish the Officer-Enlisted Divide? Negative by Jeff Anderson
For a Good Time Hack OPM by  Brian Scopa
Assessing the U.S. Navy’s Arctic Roadmap by Andreas Kuersten

Featured Image: SAN DIEGO (Aug. 29, 2016) Marines with Task Force Los Angeles prepare to board the USS America (LHA 6) at Naval Base San Diego, Calif. The ship will carry Marines, Sailors, and Coast Guardsmen to Los Angeles Fleet Week, Sept. 2 – Sept. 5. Fleet Weeks are annual patriotic events where active Navy and Coast Guard ships dock in major U.S. cities giving Marines, Sailors and Coast Guardsmen an opportunity to interact with locals.  (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Caitlin Bevel/Released)

Fostering the Discussion on Securing the Seas.