Category Archives: Events
CIMSEC’s May DC Meet-Up
If you’re in the DC area next Wednesday, May 29th, we hope you’ll stop by Lyon Hall in Arlington for our monthly DC-area meet-up. It’s a chance to share some ideas, meet new folk, or just grab a drink and swap a sea story or two. Time: May 29th, 5-9pm Location: Lyon Hall, 3100 Washington [...]
CIMSEC 1-Year Anniversary and April DC Meet-Up
It’s been one year since we started CIMSEC as an experiment in empowering maritime security collaboration and discussion (alright, after I stared it as a. During this time we’ve published over 250 articles and posts on the NextWar blog and have grown to over 100 members. Our articles and authors have been re-run, cited, or quoted in [...]
Constructive Disruption: The Defense Entrepreneurs Forum
One year ago today, an oft repeated, maligned and admired phrase kicked off a broad dialogue, bringing together a growing, widespread, and once-disparate community of defense innovators. Put simply, the idea of Disruptive Thinking was a call to question the status quo, to leverage existing innovative civilian institutions and to find crossover applications for use [...]
Read MoreMarch CIMSEC DC Meet-Up
It’s the time of the month again when CIMSECians get hungry and/or thirsty. For March’s DC meet-up we’ll be checking out Fuel Pizza Cafe (600 F St NW) in downtown D.C., 1 block from Gallery Pl/Chinatown stop. We hope you’ll join us for this informal gathering to discuss the maritime issues of the day, nominate topics for our [...]
Read MoreHuman Smuggling Across the Gulf of Aden
While Somali piracy may have been significantly down in 2012, another type of illicit activity in the Gulf of Aden has continued to increase. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 107,500 people fled Africa for Yemen via the sea in 2012. This was an increase from 103,000 in [...]
Read MoreCIMSEC’s DC End-of-Year/Holiday Meet-Up
Help us celebrate our first holiday season and the end of the year with our final 2012 DC meet-up. The crowd will be heading to the bar area of the District Chophouse at the Gallery Place/Chinatown metro stop. We hope you’ll join us to meet some interesting people, discuss our forthcoming end-of-the-year predictions, and just generally have a [...]
CIMSEC’s October DC Meet-Up
It’s the time of the month again when CIMSECians get hungry and/or thirsty. For October’s DC meet-up we’ll be returning to the Old Dominion Brewhouse in the Convention Center area, just north of Gallery Place/Chinatown. We hope you’ll join us to discuss the maritime issues of the day, recap our International Maritime Satire Week, nominate topics [...]
Read MoreA Great Leap for Mankind Takes the Last Step for a Man
Today, a piece of America’s soul has passed. Neil Armstrong, first of humanity’s representatives to stride upon a celestial body, has died. His passing is part of a greater trend, a legacy of starry-eyed optimism left behind in the morass of temporal practicality. Today, the first of our number to turn and look upon earth [...]